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APC senators reply PDP colleagues, says we stand with Buhari
In a seeming reply to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senators, the All Progressives Congress, APC, members in the Senate, Thursday passed a vote of confidence on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The party called on their colleagues in PDP to withdraw their position to stop cooperation with the Buhari-led Federal Government.
PDP senators had on Wednesday, vowed to henceforth frustrate every communication from President Buhari and his APC government, basing their decision on what they termed “unwarranted threats to the legislative arm of government, particularly to the Senate leadership by the executive arm, as well as the on-going intimidation and persecution of the opposition PDP by the ruling APC.”
But APC senators, numbering 16 and led by the Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye, said both the APC and their Labour Party colleagues had united to back Buhari.
Read also: PDP senators draw battle line with Buhari, vow to frustrate him
According to Adeyeye, “The Joint APC and LP caucuses in the country wish to tell the entire Republic and the whole world that we are stoutly behind the policies and programmes of President Muhammadu Buhari, and all his efforts at bringing the desired change that Nigerians voted for last year,”
Adeyeye further said they were shocked by the biased reaction of PDP senators on the determinations of the government to recover looted public funds meant for the prosecution of the war against insurgency.
He said, “We do not see the investigation as partisan at all. We don’t see the diversion of public funds meant for fighting insurgency as an effort to intimidate members of a particular political party.”
While he termed the avowed withdrawal of support by the PDP senators as unfair, he argued that there was nothing dictatorial or against the rule of law in all of the actions, programmes and policies of President Buhari’s government “because nobody has been unjustly arrested, imprisoned on mere allegations. Everybody has had the chance to freely defend himself or herself.”
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