APC: Emergence of Saraki, Dogara unacceptable

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the election of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively is totally unacceptable and the highest level of indiscipline and treachery.

“Senator Bukola and Hon. Dogara are not the candidates of the APC and a majority of its National Assembly memberselect for the positions of Senate President and House Speaker,” National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed said in statement yesterday.

He said the party had met and conducted a straw poll and clear candidates emerged for the posts of Senate President, Deputy Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, supported by a majority of all Senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives.

He said: “All National Assembly members-elect who emerged on the platform of the party are bound by that decision.

“The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that of its individual members,’’ the party said. “Consequently, the APC leadership is meeting in a bid to re-establish discipline in the party and to mete out the necessary sanctions to all those involved in what is nothing but a monumental act of indiscipline and betrayal to subject the party to ridicule and create obstacles for the new administration” it said.

“There can be no higher level of treachery, disloyalty and insincerity within any party,’’ the party said, vowing to resolve the matter using all constitutional and legal means available to it.