Senators of Like Minds Rap Kwankwaso over Attack on Saraki
Chuks Okocha The ripples from the hate campaigns and indecorous comments against the election of Dr. Bukola Saraki as Senate president by the former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, have continued as senators operating on the platform of the Senators of Like Minds have expressed shock over the uncouth language of the former Kano State governor on the president of the Senate.
They also cautioned the Kwankwaso over his incendiary utterances capable of destabilising the National Assembly and rubbishing the prevailing political tranquility in the country, while accusing him of suffering from a defeat syndrome, hence his resort to hate campaign and vile language for no just cause “but the selfish intentions of a man whose ambition has beclouded his sense of reasoning.”
Kwankwaso had described the emergence of Saraki as senate president as a dangerous signal to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Kwankwaso further warned the senate president against using his ambition to destroy the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party they laboured to build and betray the confidence which Nigerians reposed in them by voting them for change.
But in a swift reaction, the senators of like minds who are ardent supporters of the senate president in a statement by the coordinator and spokesperson of the group, Senator Dino Melaye, asked Kwankwaso when he has turned the friend of President Buhari, stating: “We are surprised at the emergency of Kwanlwaso as a friend of the president.”
Melaye categorically said the senate presidency of Saraki would not constitute any threat to President Buhari’s administration, explaining that instead, the president is safer in the hands of Saraki as the president of the Senate.
According to Melaye, “The President of the eighth Senate and chairman of the National Assembly would accord all necessary legislative support and cooperation to the president.
“We make bold to state that President Buhari is safer in the eighth assembly with Saraki presiding as the president. The Saraki’s presidency of the senate will give all necessary cooperation to the president and would greatly help to stabiliser the Buhari’s administration.
“My advice to Kwankwaso is that he should not allow his unrealisable dreams of 2019 distort his reasoning in 2015. He should channel his hate campaigns and vile comments elsewhere as the senate has moved on with Saraki as the president.”
He dismissed as frivolous, Kwankwaso’s unfounded and unsubstantiated claims that Senate President would constitute a threat to the present administration, advising that: “Statements from such personality should be decorous, statesmanlike and focused on the national interest instead of promoting acrimony, hate campaign and division within the polity. This unfortunate outburst is well below Kwankwaso’s character and status, and we urge him to desist from such infantile acts.”