…As He Welcomes NASS Decampment of Members into PDP
By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to order the security forces to lift the siege on the homes and persons of the senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
Atiku in a statement on Tuesday described the actions of the security operatives as both troubling and unsettling, reminded president Buhari that it was celebration in his APC-camp when the same Saraki took the same step in favour of his party on August 31, 2013.
According to Atiku, “Power is transient and is also a trust that should only be used for the good and advancement of the people one leads and not for the persecution of real and imagined political opponents”.
The former Vice President therefore, tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to live up to his public words of solidarity to Senator Saraki after his ordeal of malicious prosecution, which was brought to a halt by the Supreme Court.
Atiku also on Tuesday welcomed the National Assembly members Decampment into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He noted that the decampment from the APC further explains the lack of capacity of the ruling party to hold and manage a political party, and indeed a government, and calls on the new entrants to see their decampment as a call to duty.
The former Vice President extolled the courage of those legislators for standing up for a mission of salvaging our democracy and that of restoring the economy to make it work for Nigerian.
Atiku therefore congratulated the People’s Democratic Party for presenting itself as a suitable platform for the new entrants.
He emphasized that the choice of the PDP as a preferred destination for them is an endorsement of the kind of leadership the national chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has provided since assuming office.
Atiku who said there will more mass defections from the APC into the PDP, added that these defections signify a vote of no confidence in the APC-led government.
He said the 2019 election is going to be a referendum of how the APC shattered the expectations of Nigerians”.
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