The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole that the position of Senate Presidency and that of deputy positions do not belong to political parties but to Nigerians, who elect persons into the Senate through their elected representatives.
The party said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan that Oshiomhole is exposing his ignorance in thinking that the Senate leadership can be changed by his inconsequential orders as a chairman of a political party.
PDP noted that the power to change senate leadership is vested only on the two-thirds votes, representing 73 of the 109 senators.
“We know that Oshiomhole is under intense pressure from the presidency to overheat the polity, distract the National Assembly members and make as much effort to cause a constitutional crisis in the country, having realized that they cannot win the 2019 general elections,” PDP noted.
It said that Nigerians have noted that since he became APC National Chairman Oshiomhole, has done nothing but “spewing hate speeches and officially introducing a thug mentality into the polity, while causing confusion in every sector of our national life, including the Federal Executive Council, the security system, our legislature as
well as in his dysfunctional APC, which as an
undertaker, he is finally set to bury.
“Since Oshiomhole assumed office, the nation has witnessed various unimaginable constitutional infractions, including the invasion of Benue State House of Assembly and the Ekiti State Government House by APC-Controlled federal security agencies, the escalated harassment of federal legislators and persons perceived to be averse to APCs’ re-election bid; the siege at the residences of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu by security agencies as well as the recent invasion of the National Assembly by security operatives.”
PDP, however, said Oshiomhole, and APC are fighting a lost battle because, according to the party, Nigerians cannot be cowed into changing their resolve to end their nightmare by voting the APC out and returning the nation to the path of
peace, national cohesion and economic prosperity, on the platform of the repositioned PDP, come 2019.
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