If reports are true, the president bears personal responsibility for all this: he called a meeting of the APC senators that he ended up not attending at the very hour the Senate was to meet, and Bukola Saraki who is himself a defector from the PDP was able to collude with his old colleagues in the PDP, in the absence of the majority of the APC senators who oppose him, to install himself as Senate President. If it is true that Buhari himself permitted this to happen as a way of wresting power from the founders his party such as Tinubu, it is a very shortsighted and ill-concieved move, indeed. Bukola Saraki is no better than Bola Tinubu: those of us who grew up in Ilorin know his father Olusola Saraki and the Saraki political dynasty very well and can say that Buhari has just installed a foxy rival of vaulting ambition for himself. The loss of control of the APC leadership here flows directly from other officials realizing that if Saraki could circumvent the party and plot his way to power without any consequences, they, too, should be able to do the same. The cat is now out out the bag. The ranks are broken, too soon, I would say. Whoever advised that this was to Buhari’s advantage to consolidate power, if not already, would soon be regretting the move to sabotage party leadership, that is if they truly care for the country. It is never a smart idea to bloody your own nose in order to spite your face. It does not take wizardry to predict that the business of this legislative assembly will be marked by intrigues and turbulence which will threaten if not derail Buhari’s agenda.
The new PDP and the old PDP have seized the National Assembly from the APC that majority of Nigerians voted for in the last elections to effect a change of rule by kleptomaniacs. With the capture of the National Assembly by the corrupt old and the new PDP legislatures, Buhari's chance of fighting corruption in Nigeria is zero. Nigerians voted for APC to rule Nigeria and any attempt to prevent them from ruling by the party that was voted out of power by absolute majority of Nigerians should lead to stiff resistance or fracas in the House.
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AnunobyO@lincolnu.eduTo:
usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.comDate: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:49:43 -0500
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Photonews: Fracas In Nigeria's House Of Representatives
It is all very well to condemn the fracas in the House. It is necessary too to condemn the interference in the affairs of the House and Senate, by unelected, lawless, and powerful politicians who seek to direct legislative affairs and the presidency by manipulating some puerile legislators from outside the legislature.
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They are not honorable people. They are agbero motor parks, Ojuelegba danfo conductors, Mushin thugs and Yanyan armed robbers. They have no shame. They should be recalled by their constituencies.
Prof. Segun Ogungbemi
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