Abuja – The leadership crisis which had delayed the composition of the principal officers of the House of Representatives is yet to be settled as the loyalists group yesterday accused the PDP members of trying to truncate President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda, which include his anti-corruption stance by using the National Assembly to, at the very minimum, slow it down if they cannot stop this Presidential initiative dead cold.
“We know that this unholy agreement between the disloyal Dogara group and the PDP entail the deployment of PDP members and the disloyal APC group in strategic positions in the Structures and Committees of The House”.
” The purpose of this strategic deployment is to enable the PDP to indirectly dictate the pace and activities of the National Assembly to the detriment of our party’s goals and objectives”.
Hon. Nasiru Sani Zangon Daura of the All Progressive Congress (APC who headed the loyalists group spoke with the press in Abuja, equally highlighted their current position on the lingering crisis in the House.
“To have a genuine agreement that is not tainted by the PDP, the Dogara group will have to first of all cut off the umbilical cord between them and the PDP and secondly engage in candid reconciliatory discussions with our group as a whole through our approved members under the leadership of Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila”.
They denied having any knowledge of the trojan offers of Party Principal Officers positions being made to individuals in their group.
“We hereby restate for the avoidance of any doubt that this struggle is not about FEMI GBAJABIAMILA, YAKUBU DOGARA, ALHASSAN ADO DOGUWA, MT MONGUNO or PALLY IRIASE this is about being loyal and committed to party’s manifesto which amongst others includes the Fight against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari”.
The group expressed their appreciation to of millions of Nigerians who voted them under the platform of the APC because of their desire to bring about change as embodied in the party’s agenda.
“We also note that the historic election that paved the way for the opportunity of the emergence of an APC government in the Executive and Legislative arms of Government, had also presented an opportunity to consign the PDP in to oblivion even though we are open constructive engagement from the opposition party in the House”.
“We also note that in the elections of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of The House of Representatives there was an unsanctioned and unholy alliance between the members of the opposition parties in the House and the 39 disloyal members of the APC in the House that connived to produce the Dogara Speakership”.
Hon. Zangon Daura said they also noted the APC National Executive Committee (NEC) position concurring with the above statement of the President and they equally stood by their party.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has stated severally and just recently at the Party’s NEC Meeting that Party decisions are supreme. We stand by him”.
In their resolution, Daura said that the group have had enough of the shenanigans of the PDP and the Speaker Dogara group
Therefore reminded Speaker Dogara group and his PDP allies in the House that they have fought the PDP and already chased them out of government because they were willing to pay the price to ensure that Nigerians are not short-changed.
“And we are ready to do it again now so that the Change Agenda prevails in the House of Representatives”.
