The Senator representing Osun
East Senatorial District, Francis Fadahunsi has said that the National Chairman
of All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, was by his behaviour
exhibiting traits of the head-boy of a primary school.
He added that members of the
ruling APC, who had ambitions during the just-concluded leadership election in
the National Assembly, ignored Oshiomhole and disregarded his directives for
being too shallow and childish.
The lawmaker spoke on Sunday
during a Thanksgiving Service he organised in his hometown at Ilase-ijesha, to
appreciate people of his senatorial district over his electoral triumph.
According to Fadahunsi, both the
Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, and the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, campaigned
vigorously across party lines for them to emerge, adding that had it been that
both of them relied and listened to Oshiomhole’s directives, the elections
would have gone the other way.
He opined that the consciousness for
competence and vibrancy, irrespective of party affiliations, in which the NASS
elections were predicated, must be sustained to maintain a peaceful and
successful parliament.
Fadahunsi, who won election on
the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, called for masses-oriented
legislation in the ninth National Assembly to better the lives of ordinary
Nigerians.
He said, “What is called National
Assembly is not a one-party affair. It is an assemblage of people from diverse
orientations and world views; it goes beyond parochial and myopic thoughts of
an individual .
“I know how Lawan and
Gbajabiamila really campaigned amongst different parties that made up the
Senate and House of Representatives, ignoring that childish directives of their
chairman which lacked human dignity.
“It is certain that if all that
Oshiomhole said about chairmanship of committees of the National Assembly could
be followed, both the Senate and House of Representatives would be hot,”
Fadahunsi said.
Speaking on the spate of insecurity
in Osun State, the lawmaker said the move by suspected Fulani herdsmen to cause
security breaches in the South West has been discovered long ago, regretting
that governments in the states that make up the region have not been proactive
in their approach to tackle insecurity.
He also blamed traditional
institution in the zone for being too relaxed in their domains in the face of
suffocating external aggression.
“I think there is need for our
royal fathers to have a rethink on the way lands are being handed over to some
foreigners for undisclosed purpose so that we will not be handing over our
lands to those who will later constitute security threat to our people.
“On our part, we are making
efforts to curb this menace by all possible means, and we have started getting
results. We are also encouraging local Fulani herdsmen to help us in
identifying criminal elements among them,” he said.
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