The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has condemned the decision by the Senate to investigate the circumstances
that led to the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last
Saturday’s House of Representatives’ by-election in Kwara State.
Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC spokesman,
in a statement on Friday said the decision was an abuse of the powers of the
legislative arm of government to pursue selfish political ends.
He said while the party condemns
the investigation of the by-election which took place in the home state of the
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, it is curious that other by-elections
conducted in Katsina and Bauchi States have not received similar attention from
the Senate.
“It is clear that the sweet
victory by the APC House of Representatives candidate, Alhaji Raheem
Olawuyi-Ajuloopin in the by-election has hit the overrated federal lawmakers
from Kwara State badly”, he national publicity secretary noted.
“The PDP is not pretending to
have learnt any lessons from its past anti-democratic practices. The usurpers
occupying the Senate leadership seat have no altruistic intentions other than
to manipulate state institutions to pursue personal interests and massage
battered ego. When has it become the responsibility of the legislative arm of
government to constitute itself into an election tribunal?
“They should understand that,
like the rest of the country, Kwara State has seen enough of impunity and
misrule represented by the self-serving leaders of the PDP. Turning the Senate
into an electoral tribunal only shows Nigerians that the PDP has not changed
from its odious practice of compromising the system to promote illusionary
ambitions.
“We can only advise the leaders
of PDP in Kwara State and elsewhere in the country to get used to losing
elections. The Nigerian electorate have tasted the benefits of good governance
in the last three and half years of President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC
government and won’t go back to the PDP’s 16 years of waste and misrule.
“Elections have been won and
lost. A new and progressive Kwara State beckons. Through their votes, the Kwara
electorate have spoken clearly on the new political direction in the State.
Kwara State has suffered enough of the selfish machinations of a self-appointed
leader. The will and wishes of the good people of the state must prevail now,
in the 2019 elections and beyond.”
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