By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Former Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has said that the senate’s reordering of election is a red card to President Muhammadu Buhari.
It is a sign of rejection by President Buhari’s party, the All Progressives Congress which happens to be in the majority in the national Assembly, he said.
He said that the Senate’s reordering of 2019 election is akin to what South African ruling party, ANC’s did to President Jacob Zuma.
Reno who took to twitter @renoomokri said: “What the Senate did by reordering the order of the 2019 elections is similar to what the ANC did to Zuma. It is a RED CARD to Buhari. A sign of his rejection by his own party, which also happens to be the majority party in the National Assembly. Time to boot out failed leaders!
Sundiata Post recalls that the National Assembly recently agreed to reorder 2019 election order in a joint committee session.
However, the Senate on Wednesday, February 14, passed the conference committee report on amendment to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) act after it was presented to the plenary by Chairman of the Senate committee on INEC, Senator Suleiman Nazif.
The federal lawmakers want their election held first in 2019, before that of the state lawmakers and state governors, with the last being the presidential election.
Sundiata Post further recalls that ANC parliamentary caucus met Wednesday (February 14) and agreed to support the Economic Freedom Fighters’ motion for a vote of no confidence after Zuma refused to resign despite being recalled by the ANC’s national executive committee on Tuesday.
In what appeared to be a realization that it the end of the road for him, a defiant Zuma gave a live television interview to the SOuth African Broadcasting Corporattion (SABC) where he defended himself and rejected the attempt by the ANC’s top leadership to remove him from his position.
Zuma said he disagreed with the notion that he had to be removed purely because the ANC had a new president.