APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole has cautioned the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, to stay away from trouble and respect the sanctity of the state House of Assembly.
He revealed this after the inauguration and election of Speaker of the assembly by 11 members of the assembly loyal to the governor out of the elected 31.
He shared that it is unheard of that a minority party would shut out twenty APC members so they can perpetuate the act in the “nocturnal hours”.
His words, “There is no way the PDP can produce the speaker, the deputy speaker and other principal officers. If the governor insists, then he is inviting trouble for himself. He should have said he is vacating the governorship office until the determination of his case.”
“So if we have not misused federal might or federal instrument or institution to prevent Governor Bala Mohammed from being inaugurated, it is a shame that he would rather sit and use federal institution to undermine the rights and privileges of the APC members elected duly by the people of Bauchi State certified by INEC to be inaugurated.”
“Yours was 6am, Edo was 9.30 pm, all these are unholy hours. Those are nocturnal hours. The working hours for parliament are provided by the rules of the parliament. It is not up to anyone to change those rules only properly constituted parliament can change the rules as they are.”
Odigie-Oyegun also said, “It is a very, very unfortunate situation and it only originates from the breakdown of god-fatherism,” saying the crisis should send a strong message to those he described as “combatants” in the party.
“We saw this happening, we knew it could happen, but, I’m surprised it could happen with this kind of degree of intensity. But, like I told you, god-fatherism does not work with a thinking people who are so diverse.
“Just to remind the combined combatants that if they continue in the path they have set for themselves, they stand the danger of making the APC the opposition party in the state because the division in the party is very deep and if they don’t reconcile quickly, then I can bet them now, that they will lose the state. So, let them not destroy the party and the state because nobody will benefit from it, if that happens, everybody will lose. That’s my only message to them.”
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