APC rejects Saraki, Dogara's emergence as Senate President and Speaker House of Reps
The Leadership of the APC has released a statement
rejecting the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki
and Hon Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and
Speaker of the House of Representatives. The
statement in part reads
"Senator Bukola and Hon. Dogara are not the
candidates of the APC and a majority of its
National Assembly members-elect for the
positions of Senate President and House
Speaker. The party duly met and conducted a
straw poll and clear candidates emerged for the
posts of Senate President, Deputy Senate
President and Speaker of the House of
Representatives, supported by a majority of all
Senators-elect and members-elect of the House
of Representatives.
All National Assembly members-elect who
emerged on the platform of the party are
bound by that decision. The party is supreme
and its interest is superior to that of its
individual members. Consequently, the APC
leadership is meeting in a bid to reestablish
discipline in the party and to mete out the
necessary sanctions to all those involved in
what is nothing but a monumental act of
indiscipline and betrayal to subject the party to
ridicule and create obstacles for the new
administration. There can be no higher level of
treachery, disloyalty and insincerity within any
party"the statement read.
