The lawmaker representing
Zamfara Central Senatorial District, Senator Kabiru Marafa, has lambasted
Customs boss, Hammed Ali for declaring that the Buhari government was derailing.
He said Ali’s comment was
simply a “vote of no confidence” on the government he was part of.
Marafa stated this in a chat
with newsmen in Abuja on Saturday.
The senator further alleged
that the Customs boss did not influence up to 100 votes for Buhari in the 2015
election.
He said, “When he talked about
derailing, to me, if actually he believed in what he said, he should resign. He
should resign because what he did was like passing a vote of no confidence in a
government in which he is serving.
”He is part of the derailment
because the position the President gave him is not befitting him. What was his
contribution?
“He said 50 per cent of the
people who formed the government are from the PDP. If I was there, I would have
asked him to expatiate. Is he talking of the PDP members who left the party and
joined the APC to secure its victory or is he talking of the PDP as it is
today.
“If he is talking of the people
who left the PDP to join the APC, with all sense of responsibility, I think it
is politically irresponsible to say that because these were the people who
joined hands with the APC to bring about this government.
“In politics, anybody who
identifies with you and joins you before ballots are cast, is part and parcel
of your struggle. Anybody at whatever stage they join before going to the polls
is part of you and your victory. It is only those who join you after election
that can be called any name.”
Marafa, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), added that Ali and those behind
the idea of the BSO were out to sabotage Buhari and his government.
His words, “On the opening of the
office called BSO, it is politically inexpedient now. Buhari is already the
President and he became President by popular votes; he was voted for by all
Nigerians.
“So, how do you now take a whole
national idea back to BSO? Buhari has gone beyond BSO. Even by his own
assertion, he said the idea started in 2003 and moved to 2007 and that he
joined it in 2011 and it came to 2015.”
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