Former Senate leader and governorship
candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in the 2015 general elections in
Oyo State, Senator Teslim Folarin, has flayed
the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the
protracted leadership tussle rocking the
National Assembly, saying with its desperate
political shenanigans, the party was taking
the nation to nowhere, despite its promise
of an Eldorado.










Folarin, who represented Oyo Central
Senatorial District twice in the upper
chamber, noted that the manner the APC
had so far handled its affairs regarding
filling National Assembly principal offices
demonstrated that it was a “lawless party,
peopled by desperate political shenanigans,
who have no regard for the rule of law,”
adding that the country had been disgraced
by the conduct of parliamentarians elected
on the platform of the party. The former
Senate leader made these comments
yesterday in a statement made available to
newsmen in Ibadan.











He said: “Despite its much-touted change
mantra, the APC has shown that it is nothing
but a disgrace to the country.”











While noting that although Nigerians did not
care about the internal affairs of the APC,
which it had been unable to handle
effectively, they were waiting on President
Muhammadu Buhari and the party to fulfil
their myriad of promises, rather than
leading the country into confusion with
their perceived disorderliness and
desperation.












Specifically, he tasked President Buhari on
the promises made to crush the Boko Haram
sect; the naira-dollar exchange; welfare
package for the unemployed and feeding
programmes for school children, among
others, while noting that “nearly a month
after taking over office, Nigerians are yet to
see anything tangible from this
government.” He noted that Boko Haram
insurgents had continued to attack boldly,
while the naira was still as weak as when
the president took office.














“But apart from all these; today, the country
is witnessing a national disgrace as a result
of APC’s internal struggles and lawlessness.













Was this the change they promised? As a
former Senate leader, I cannot express how
sad I am that the APC is desecrating the
National Assembly as it is doing today; I
could never have imagined that 16 years
after return to democracy, after some of us
have deepened democracy and
strengthened the institution of the National
Assembly, these sort of things could still be
happening.”











“The question Nigerians should ask the APC
lawmakers, who have turned National
Assembly chambers to boxing rings. What
exactly are they teaching the younger
generation? The other time, some of them
scaled the fence of the National Assembly
complex and some people urged them on.











Now, they are exchanging blows. Only God
knows what they will do next,” he said.









Source:www.sunnewsonline.com/news/apc-national-disgrace-ex-senate-leader/