POLITICS: What Is More Corrupt Than Dumping A Forgery Case For The Sake of Party Unity” ABDULWAHEED LAWAL

Senate President, Bukola Saraki

In the Senate, a lot has been happening with no respect for experience especially where a first term member in the senate is made the Minority Leader and an experienced personality in the Upper Chambers, is kept on the back seat.

If what is emanating from the National Assembly and the silence of the ruling APC are anything to go by, then, the APC is treading on a dangerous path and would soon exhaust the collective goodwill of Nigerians which it earned through the mandate it got freely in the 2015 poll.

The All Progressives Congress, APC seems to be taking a lot of bashing from political groups and parties with the way it has been running the affairs of the nation, in the past few months.

The recent of such bashing came in the form of a warning from the National Conscience Party, NCP recently to the APC to stop taking Nigerians for granted.

Following the various crises that has engulfed the National Assembly in recent times; the NCP has challenged the APC which controls majority of the members of the two Chambers, to urgently come up with a position in resolving the crises in the National Assembly.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX ABUJA

National Vice-Chairman of the National Conscience Party, NCP, Abdulwaheed Lawal, making this known recently in Calabar, Cross Rivers state during an interview segment with journalists stated that the APC government is only having its hands full with unresolved cases bordering on national issues.

 
According to Alhaji Abdulwaheed Lawal, the recent reconstitution of the various Committees in the Senate perceived to be some pacification of sorts to aggrieved members was a clear attempt to sweep forgery allegations besetting the leadership of the parliament, under the carpet.

 
“If what is emanating from the National Assembly and the silence of the ruling APC are anything to go by, then, the APC is treading on a dangerous path and would soon exhaust the collective goodwill of Nigerians which it earned through the mandate it got freely in the 2015 poll.

Speaking on the repercussions of such, the NCP chieftain noted that, “it is dangerous for the APC to abandon the forgery case. If the party does so, it stands to it stands to lose its popularity in the eyes of the world while its corruption fight will suffer a great setback. What is more corrupt than dumping a forgery case for the sake of party unity”? Abdulwaheed Lawal asked.

 
“It is sad that rather than hit the ground running on assumption of governance and allow policies to occupy space, the APC has consistently suffocated Nigerians with its dirty internal political wrangling”.

Lawal likened the wailings of the APC to "Like a witch who killed her husband and wailed the loudest”, the APC has continued to merely cry on these and many other issues that affect national space and governance."

According to Alhaji Lawal, "the law must be allowed to take its course on the ignoble act of Senate Rules manipulation, regardless of Senator Oluremi Tinubu or Kabiru Marafa getting juicy committees. If this is the essence of prosecution of the forgery case at the initial stage, then the APC is a party of selfish and power-mongering people.”

A visibly angry Lawal expressed his dissatisfaction with the “sacrificing of a brilliant and seasoned legislator such as Senator Babajide Omoworare on the altar of settlement by a political party with a change mantra”.

“In the Senate, a lot has been happening with no respect for experience especially where a first term member in the senate is made the Minority Leader and an experienced personality in the Upper Chambers, James Manager is kept on the back seat. We will await other desperate moves anyway," Lawal fumed.

On what his advice would be to the APC leadership, the NCP chieftain stated that they will await the decisions of the leadership of the APC.

If the APC-led government is bold and courageous enough to withdraw the forgery case against the Senate President who is currently facing trial at the CCT, then it will only go to prove that the mindset of many Nigerians.

“I am of the opinion that withdrawing the case will cast aspersion on Buhari's administration. Besides, it will be a mockery of the judiciary”.

The National politics stinks, as we speak and the APC must seriously, in introspect, call the selfish players to order before the polity implodes.

 
The patience of Nigerians must not be stressed too long as President Buhari takes a second look at his goodwill bank, it is now at a deficit.”