The National Chairman of the All
Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said the Senate
President, Bukola Saraki is a disgrace to Nigeria’s democracy.
He stated this in a statement
signed and issued on Thursday to reporters in Abuja by his Chief Press
Secretary, Simon Ebegbulem.
Oshiomhole spoke in reaction to a
statement credited to Saraki that the APC chairman had allegations of
bribe-taking as made by some governors from his party hanging on his neck.
He said it was pathetic and
irresponsible that the Senate president would resort to ‘petty politics’.
He added that Saraki had no moral
ground to call for the resignation of the national chairman.
The APC chairman threatened to
sue Saraki if he failed to provide evidence that he actually took bribes from
aspirants.
The statement reads: “It is sad
that Saraki, who just woke up from slumber occasioned by his crushing defeat at
the Port Harcourt presidential primary election of his party, could degenerate to
such a low level.
“It is equally sad, but not
unexpected, that Saraki, who is politically drowning, would make such libelous
comments against the national chairman of the APC. And I challenge Saraki to
mention one name of an aspirant that gave money to the National Chairman or we
file a legal action against him.
“Whereas, the basis on which he
made those comments was tenuous and unjustifiable, it is on record that Saraki
has been in the eye of investigations by the EFCC and the ICPC for sundry cases
of corruption.
“That is the same man that has
taken it upon himself to question Comrade Oshiomhole’s credibility.
“We challenge him to mention one
person who has claimed that he gave money to Oshiomhole to influence him and
the decision of the party’s national working committee (NWC) in the
just-concluded primary elections.
‘We insist that Saraki with his
kind of prebendal politics is nothing but a monumental disgrace to the nation’s
democracy.”
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