PDP Senators Vows to Frustrate the Party…Our Doors Are Open for You – APC Senator
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Posted On Nov 6, 2014
As the crisis between Senator under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the leadership of the party continues to soar, a highly ranked PDP senator who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity has said that with the alleged conspiracy to deny senators tickets in the 2015 elections, they were going to frustrate the PDP-led government
The senator also promised that the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, MTEF and FSP which was before the Red Chamber would not be considered for approval.
The spokesperson for the aggrieved senators had said: “We are going to show solidarity with the Speaker of House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal. We will not sit again. There will be no consideration of the MTEF (Medium Term Expenditure Framework) and there will be no budget.
“We decided to adjourn and do no business and the APC senators are in solidarity with us. President Goodluck Jonathan has lost the Senate, he has left the PDP structures in the hands of the governors, let the governors also do our job. We are going to shut the government.
“You can see that before sitting we had a meeting. Either they give us back what they gave to the governors or PDP will lose the Senate. All the things we have been doing to protect this government, we are not going to do them again.
“When we don’t approve the MTEF and the budget, then, the international community will know that nothing is working in this country. PDP is finished,” the senator stated.
Another senator also lamented that even before the ward congresses, for about three months, no allowances had been given to them, which he claimed it was deliberate by the executive to starve them of funds for the ongoing congresses.
He said, “Under this arrangement, if left unchallenged, none of the senators would come back in 2015. We are planning to boycott legislative businesses until further notice.
The aggrieved senators it was have embarked on intensive lobby for their own automatic tickets as was given to the governors and had directed the Senate President, Senator David Mark to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the PDP on the grievances of the members.
However, it was gathered that the leadership of the PDP was worried over the looming crisis in the party and had in a way to pacify the senators fixed a meeting for yesterday to find a way of calming the frayed nerves.
PDP Senators made themselves slaves to the executive— Ojudu
Reacting to abrupt adjournment of the senate, Senator Babafemi Ojudu representing Ekiti Central on the platform of APC, lamented that there were no standards in the Senate and that the opposition senators were at the mercy of the ruling party which was the reason they were forced to adjourn abruptly.
Senator Ojudu said as spokesman of the opposition APC in the senate, he advised the PDP senators to stop crying foul because they (PDP senators) had made themselves slaves before the Presidency and the party and should learn how to remain so.
He said: “If we have our way, we in APC, will come here tomorrow and sit. It should not be about personal interest but about the future of this country. It should be about our people. Now they have seen injustice, they are fighting.
“We saw injustice more than three and a half years ago, we wanted to fight, they didn’t allow us to fight, why must it be that it is when it affects us (senators) that we act? People should have standards. They have now seen that most of them are no longer welcome back in their homes, they have seen that they have made themselves slaves to the executive, and when you make yourself a slave, they will treat you like a slave, and now they have treated them like slaves. That is the consequence of that.”
He said that the opposition political parties opposed the adjournment by chorusing nay, but the Senate President ruled in favour of the ruling party’s adjournment call.
He said: “We were voted in by Nigerians, we are working for Nigerians, but because they have problems with their party, with the President and with their governors, we are not allowed to work. We don’t want it to be said that we, APC members don’t want to work. We want to work but the system does not allow us to work. The rules as practiced by the majority, do not allow us to work.
“It is unfortunate, we are the minority, we will have our say and they will have their way. We are going to call a meeting of our caucus and we are going to discuss this. We had even expected that they will call an executive meeting where we would discuss this matter, before they just came in and adjourned like that. Some of us came from our constituencies, far away places so that we could sit for this week, but we are here, we are not allowed to sit. Suddenly, conservatives of yesterday have turned to today’s radicals.”
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