Chairman of Senate Committee on
Banks and other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, has slammed the
leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, over his recent
utterances about members of the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
He said Tinubu’s utterances were
increasingly unbecoming of a leader.
Tinubu had at a public function
attended by Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, in Ibadan , the Oyo state
capital, accused some Senators of political prostitution in the build-up to the
election of the 8th Senate President on June 7, 2015.
Reacting to the allegation, Ibrahim
said he was neither a political prostitute nor a robber in the events that
culminated in Senator Lawan losing the Senate Presidency to Dr. Bukola Saraki
on June 7, 2015.
In an interview published on
ThisDay newspaper on Monday, Senator Ibrahim (Kwara South), said: “With a
little apology to Tinubu, it is unfortunate that such utterances were coming
from an elder statesman like him.
“Tinubu should seek caution in
his public utterances because good leaders don’t talk down on people the way he
does and should note that his being a leader today does not mean he will be
leader forever.
“I can say with emphasis that our
own leaders don’t talk to us the way Tinubu is talking.
“I reject being called a
political prostitute in totality and can also say this about my other APC
Senators then because I knew no money exchanged hands but we voted based on our
conviction.”
Ibrahim said Tinubu was to blame
for planning to impose a leadership on the Senate without carrying along APC
Senators. He wondered why the former Lagos governor is still pained by what
transpired over three and half years ago.
“You haunted and persecuted Dr
Saraki since his emergence as Senate President and it took the ruling of the
Supreme Court for him to be vindicated
“So, when there was no sincere
reconciliation, we left the APC for them. Now, Tinubu is now referring to an
old issue forgetting that he and others caused the problem then,” the Senator
added.
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