Abdullahi Adamu, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, on Thursday lambasted the new Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over their insistence to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Adamu said nPDP’s claim of marginalization and insistence on meeting Buhari was to “blackmail and ambush” the President.
In a statement he signed, the lawmaker urged the leadership of the APC to ignore the antics of the nPDP.
The former Nasarawa State Governor commended Buhari for refusing to interfere in the nPDP issue, which, according to him, was receiving the attention of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and the leadership of the party.
According to Abdullahi, it is time for the party to ‘’ignored the deliberate attempts’’ by some persons in the APC to distract President Buhari’s focus on governance, pointing out that the admonition was against the backdrop of their recent decision to resurrect the platform of the defunct nPDP to fight their personal battles.
“I belonged to the nPDP; and, as I had said before, there was nowhere we held a meeting to resurrect the group for the purpose of protesting alleged marginalization of our former members by the APC-led federal government. Apart from that, the basis of the group’s allegation is tenuous.”
The senator, who is the north-central zone’s coordinator for Buhari’s presidential campaign, said that the latest media report of President Buhari’s resolve not to interfere in the APC leadership’s meeting with the nPDP was a welcome development.
He stated that the President’s position that Vice President Osinbajo and the party leadership should interface with the nPDP was good for the supremacy of the APC.
He stated, “While the antics of the so-called nPDP to portray the Buhari administration as being unfair to the group in its appointments are reprehensible, I commend the President’s governance style and his litany of progressive decisions that are in tandem with the collective aspirations of our party.”
The lawmaker stated that it was disingenuous for the nPDP to create the impression that the Buhari administration had been partial in its appointments.
“If, however, the group’s ultimate agenda is to prepare the ground to pull out of the APC at the national convention or thereafter, I have good news for our teeming members nationwide: it is a notorious fact that some of the people concerned have already started jumping from one side of the aisle to the other in the chamber without a formal declaration of defection.”
“Time shall tell whether or not these persons actually count for something in the bigger picture of Mr. President’s bid to have his presidential mandate renewed by Nigerians who are enamoured by his anti-corruption war and his integrity in government,” he added.
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