Immediate past governor of Kano State Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso yesterday said election of a deputy senate president from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will create problems for the Muhammadu Buhari- led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
He advised the APC national chairman to write a letter of reprimand to Saraki and the other senators who are members of the party in order to ensure party discipline.

Kwankwaso, who was elected into the 8th Senate said while speaking with newsmen in Abuja that the circumstances under which the current senate leadership was put in place is worse than the circumstances that led to the emergence of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as speaker of the House of Representatives in 2011. He noted that is has sown seeds of discord for the ruling party and the current administration.

“In 2011 the Tambuwal case was a case of going out of the zoning but all the positions went to the members of the party while this time around, because of the ambition of members of our party they went and connived with people who are not only opponents but enemies of the party to fight the party after the people of this country have discarded these people,” he said.

The former governor said the APC should do all it could to reclaim its mandate, saying the position of the deputy senate president rightly belongs to the ruling party and recalled that for the five times the PDP controlled the government at the centre, it did not share the leadership positions in the National Assembly with any other party.

He said it was wrong for the Saraki group to have gone to the extent of negotiating away the seat of the deputy senate president to a member of the opposition party.

“I think the party unfortunately is divided but it is not too late to correct things. The party should take certain steps to ensure such things don’t happen again in the party.

“Bukola should not go too far on his ambition. At his level people should be more careful about what they do. Members of the party should have limitations, they should know where to start and where to stop. I think this is going too far romancing members of the PDP,” he said.
“As far as we are concerned, PDP was dead until recently when ambition brought certain people to do what they should not do in party politics now they are creating unnecessary line for them and some of them are surfacing again making all sorts of statements,” he added.

Kwankwaso identified several factors as responsible for what transpired at the National Assembly on the June 9, saying the delay on the part of the APC in taking a position on the issue of zoning, as well the insistence by the Group of Seven (G-7) governors that left the PDP for compensation as another.

He said some of the senators felt that supporting Lawan would be supporting Bola Tinubu believed to have had his fair share in the current administration.

“On the issue of what went wrong. So many things had to do with time. I know very well that you are aware that we had so many weeks and months after the elections and that was the time when action would have been taken to ensure we had a successful election. This is not the time to say I told you. But many of us tried to draw the attention of our leaders to do the right thing at the right time. Sometimes you may decide to do the right thing at the wrong time and this may back fire.

“I think the party lost crucial opportunity to resolve the issue because many people who were involved were facing these challenges for the first time.
“What complicated the whole matter is that the situation now is that more than 50 percent of Bukola is in PDP. If you take the position of the senate president it becomes more difficult. The implication is that very soon the leadership of the senate will start Tambuwalising the party and of course the government as we have seen in 2011,” he stated.

uniknet:
Stop playing to the gallery. You were one of those present when the elections took place, did you raise any objections when Ekweremadu was nominated? Now he wants to come out as the saint.

NgeneUkwenu:


Stop lying! Kwankwanso was not there! He was part of the twenty Senators that hurriedly came to the chamber, when they heard about the shenanigans going on in the chambers!

barcanista was running his mouth the other day! Saraki is finished politically!

Monimatic:
[size=13pt]who is kwankwaso fooling
he was among the APC members that were with Saraki at the national assembly complex when Saraki n Ekweremadu were elected, why didn't he raise an objection to the nomination Senator Ekweremadu when Ekweremadu was nominated ....all these politicians deceiving people everyday...yeye dey smell [/size]

babyfaceafrica:
Hmmm....ekeremadU can do nothing unless saraki allows him!!!

fr3do:


have you ever supported SE interest?
You are very strange!

babyfaceafrica:
Hmmm....ekeremadU can do nothing unless saraki allows him!!!

ziccoit:
This man is an experience politician. He told the APC leadership but his advice was not heeded.

NgeneUkwenu:


Stop lying! Kwankwanso was not there! He was part of the twenty Senators that hurriedly came to the chamber, when they heard about the shenanigans going on in the chambers!

barcanista was running his mouth the other day! Saraki is finished politically!

99100:

How do u mean by the bolded?
Is he impeachable by the APC senators?

Pls explan how Saraki is finished politically.

#In the word of senator Ndume(Saraki camp) ; They can not sanction us because they know they are not dealing with boys.

modath:

Ekweremadu said he grabbed the DSP position so the SE wouldn't last, wish he could enumerate what he did for the SE cause for the previous two terms he had...

One myopic saTANist said he built many event centres in Enugu and environs!!

NgeneUkwenu:


Shut up! I support the interest of Nigeria! Ekweremmadu is a thief! I know him very well. He wants to whip up ethnicity to reap where he didn't sow!

NgeneUkwenu:


Kwankwaso is a member of the Unity Forum backing Lawan! He was part of the twenty Senators that hurriedly came to chamber when the election of the Deputy was going on!

You people should stop looking for Support for Saraki! Kwankwaso was not part of the Charade!

modath:


Saraki's main objective is the presidency but he he has succesfully killed any future chance of that happening..

The PDP's present romance with him is to get all they need from him, they will never give him or Atiku their ticket.

makzeze:
he advised Nuhu Ribadu against decamping to PDP too. see now Ribadu is rendered useless.

owobokiri:
He is always having problems with positions occupied by easterners. . If he is not kicking for the replacement of the census boss , he is railing against the creation of more states in the east. Now it is the hopeless position of one hapless Ekweremadu. . Not to talk of his total neglect of Sabon gari kano as the governor and his endless confrontations with igbo traders there. Very polarising politician.