SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (THEWILL) – Senator representing Nasarawa West senatorial district, and former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu,
has accused theSenate President, Bukola Saraki, of being behind the new faction of the ruling APC, the reformed All Progressives Congress (rAPC).
Adamu, during an interview with journalists at the APC secretariat, said Saraki and the others are free to leave the party but added that some supporters of the rAPC have chosen to remain in the dark and back the rAPC because it is too risky for Saraki to leave the party because he would lose his seat.
“I told you these are people who have got felonies that they are hiding and want to use their positions in the party and national assembly as a facade, as a veil to hide from the felonies they have committed,” he said.
“The whole thing they are fighting is not so much (of) service to Nigeria but service to their interest and I did tell you that they are just staying in the APC to cause maximum possible damage.
“I have been proven right. I told you all the noise about wanting to stay and work for the family of the APC but they are just trying to create the kind of impression that in APC they had no deal.
“He (Mr Saraki) has benefited more than any single new PDP person and he seems to be the arrow head of this resistance now.
“They did not deserve the attention they wanted because it’s not founded in realism, it’s not founded in truth it’s not founded on loyalty or patriotism to the country.”
Speaking about the chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, he said: “He remains absolutely committed to make a success of his mission as chairman of our great party.
“I cannot say more than I will, we will, give him maximum possible support both at the national assembly where I am coming from, from the streets of Nigeria, from all the constituencies all the polling units so that APC would emerge victorious in the 2019 general election.
“The issue of threat doesn’t arise. I have seen enough Nigerian politics thus far and from what we have seen so far the indication is that we are dealing with 419-ers.
“All politics is local. How many of them can go to their constituency and say or do what they are doing in Abuja? I don’t call them Abuja politicians because they don’t deserve that, they are just 419-ers. These are guys who just go from place to place.
“We don’t see them as what they called reformed APCs, I think they are rejects.
“Nobody who is (a) democrat will welcome what we are witnessing. The fact of the matter (is that it) is out of selfish ambition, out of the desire to promote self instead of the nation, instead of service we got ourselves in this.
“Somebody who was contesting for senate presidency found a way of going into an illicit alliance, accord with an opposing party, betraying the party that elected him there and didn’t say he has left the party.
“From that day, the government which is supposed to be an APC government, the national assembly became an opposition party. That’s a misfortune which has been our lot since June 9, 2015, till date but by the grace of God we will cure that ailment in the forth coming election.”
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