Buhari Must Probe All According to Some so-called Igbo Leaders, Really?

I am discombobulated by this Ben Nwabueze’s logic for probing more than Jonathan’s administration.  His reasoning to excuse Ebele from his responsibility for not probing Obasanjo (remember Obasanjo and his daughter, Iyabo were probed when Ebele was Vice President) is because they both belong to the same party.  So Buhari should therefore do what Goodluck should have done because he loved his party more than his country or if PMB does not prosecute any of the APC members, will Ben find that acceptable? He also contradicted himself by saying that the military government of Mohammed/Obasanjo probed Gowon’s administration though his earlier argument was fraternity throbs patriotism but that aside, who are these Ndigbo leaders telling the president what to do?

We were all here on this planet when during the campaign Buhari said he was not interested in all administrations except the immediate past-administration.  Probe all administrations would surely halt all the new administration has on its plate and therefore guarantees disaffection among Nigerians for failure to improve their lives.  First, all previous administrations were probed, Obansanjo and her daughter, Iyabo were probed and Musa Yar’aduha did not protect him.  Very few new administrations in modern world politics spend time probing beyond the immediate past administration.  I remember very well that new administration in South Korea would usually probe the immediate past one and the head of the immediate past usually end up killing himself.  But back on Nigeria, the Yorubas gunning for OBJ’s head and Tinubu’s are those who hate them and among the Igbos wanting Buhari to go beyond Ebele’s is because they don’t want acerbic information on Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and Diezani Allison-Madueke who on Jan. 2012 promised the refineries would be working to 90% full capacity and were going to sign contracts with the original builders.  In short both the Ibo leaders and the Yoruba talking-heads that want to overwhelm Buhari’s administration, the administration would not take the bait!

The rumor mill in Nigeria is saying that those two female ex-ministers, each has over $6 billion in her accounts.  So Buhari should go after the “little petty thieves” as Jonathan distinguished between stealing and corruption. The former Chief of Defense Staff, General Alex Badeh now says the last time the federal government bought military hardware was in 2006 before Jonathan came in.  Nwoye in Anambra sees Metuh’s moves and every other person speaking out now as self-serving. Where were they when Ebele was telling us corruption is not stealing?  The other day Obiano had a big birthday celebration, the LP in Anambra blamed him for waste of money, and you know they would do the same if they were in power but they are not.  Why did Ebele invite the Abdulsalmi Abubakar National Peace Committee to his house and then they went to see Buhari asking him to allow due process and remember this is not a military government. That was what came out from the mouth of the spokeman for the committee at Aso Rock, Bishop Matthew Kukah. That is the talking-point of Olisah Metuh and besides did anyone tell Obasanjo that, only the “uneducated Hausa” man should be reminded yet, this so-called illiterate head of state has more respect for democracy than the two southerners who were running the government before him.  It is an insult to talk to him like that.  This man has spent several years while running and losing to study the constitution and to learn more about democracy than the southerners want to give him credit for.

GMD Emmanuel Kachikwu assumed leadership at NNPC less than 15 days ago and he is ordering forensic audit only of 2014 and 2015 happenings at NNPC.  I did not hear the so-called Igbo leaders or the Yoruba motor-mouths asking him to go to as far as 1999.  Let PMB carry out his mandate and if anyone does not like it, run in 2019, did anyone speak out when Jonathan administration was sending EFCC to probe opposition politicians, remember, he did not allow an Ikwere Ibo Chuck Amechi to fly his plane but other governors were or allow him to assume the leadership of the Governors Forum that he had more votes than his opponent, or charging Tinubu or many other non-PDP governors and politicians including the CBN governor that he sent his people after, Lamido Sanusi was going to be arrested before the coronation, sending police to surround his palace, Sanusi had to sleep in the Kano State Governor’s house a day before his coronation.  Where were these Igbo leaders, give me a break!!  How did Nyesom Wike, the current governor of Rivers State get more votes than the number of registered voters in his state and Dr. Dukuku Peterside was sent packing?  I did not hear the Ndigbo leaders cry out, corrupt people pretending to be virtues of what is good for Nigeria. Double-standard people pretending they are doing it for Nigeria, these leaders including the so-called self-made Yoruba leaders who took money from Jonathan and kept quiet.  Suddenly they all see the light, fair treatment of all as if probing is a vendetta rather than a way to bring accountability to governance. Buhari is the only president that wants and asks to be addressed as Mhammadu Buhari in this 5th republic.  When Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole asked Ngozi Okonjo Iweala about the federal money, she gave at least three different answers and on the warpath with Adams.  So, you are all above the law.  Did PDP leadership in the senate not see Buhari, did they do the same when Jonathan was probing or harassing those APC politicians, Senator Dino Melaye was jailed 14 times under Jonathan administration, where were all these people coming out from wood-works.  When Aminu Tambuwal crossed over to APC, as Speaker of the House, Jonathan administration immediately withdrawn his security details and protections and Sokoto State APC chieftains were detained by Sokoto State Command of DSS just before the 2015 election, did the Ndigbo leaders speak out?  Of course not, too busy enjoying the peaks of knowing the ruling class.

Does UK Have Dual Citizenship or Saraki just playing fast & loose?

 

Who is Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is he the same as Olubukola Adebisi Olabowale Saraki? What I like to know is he a British or a Nigerian, is he Yoruba or what because he now calls himself Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is that in an effort to get the northerners’ votes? Well, I do not believe the northerners are fools and would not smell the rat! Did you see his forms that he completed for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)? Judge for yourself, courtesy of Sahara reporters. He was born in Hmpstead North of the Metropolitan Bourough of Hampstead in UK on December 19, 1962.

Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki thanks to the 58 senators mainly PDP that clandestinely voted him in when they were yet to be sworn and their colleagues were away and remember when I wrote that the piper dictates the tune, Saraki is beholdinh to PDP otherwise why would he give chairmanship appointments to senators from the minority? Nowhere in the world would that have happened except with this guy

Saraki’s INEC form SaharaReporters, Media, see for yourself http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/06/nigerias-senate-president-saraki-lied-his-official-election-forms#.VcQCPswnna0.email

He specializes in truth-shaving, obfuscation and plain dishonesty, he is motivated by his self-preservation at all cost and he has a lengthy history with the law in Nigeria and I even heard Buhari arrested him in the 1980s

Saraki’s INEC form Sahara Reporters Media

 

Saraki Bastardizing Democracy as it is known all over the world

Imagine a minority party in the largest democracy, India or the earliest democracy, USA holding a swagger over the majority party. That is what Bukola Abubakar Saraki has done, turning politics and democracy on their heads. It is bad for Nigeria and this self-serving legislator who thinks he can use people and parties for his person shuffle and gains, actually thinks he is the king.

How do you explain how a minority senator, Senator Samuel Anyanwu (PDP-Imo east) was made the chair of Senate Committee on Ethics and Public Petitions? There is no logic or commonsense to this and why is the senate president in Nigeria decides who chairs a committee? In a truly democracy, the majority (in this case APC caucus) determines who heads a committee. Now, I think Buhari should have brought Saraki to US to see how the Senate works.

Saraki wants to destroy the country and he should be reeled in but he got his way. How can any senator think he has such power to disabuse the system? Imagine a partisan senator bringing Mr. Lawal Daura of DSS to his committee to do tongue-lashing because he dared to protect Nigerians from abuses and stealing of election of April 11 in Rivers State where there were 299,000 registered voters but INEC recorded over a million votes.   Well, Anyanwu did not get his wish, Daura sent his director of operations, Mr. Goodwin Etim who educated the uninformed partisan about the so-called activities. Where were these senators when Jonathan administration was doing all kinds of unconstitutional activities?

Who Let the EFCC Dogs Out on Saraki’s Wife, who, who?

Who Let the EFCC Dogs Out on Saraki’s Wife, who, who? Olisah Metuh would like you to believe it was Tinubu that used his influence with the EFCC boss and so would Saraki’s men in the Senate to get Mrs. Toyin Saraki investigated. But that would not be true, it was Kwara State PDP that filed the complaint.

Saraki like I wrote a few weeks ago (and to lesser extent, Yakubu Dogara) thinks they are co-presidents with PMB but the nation knows better. Saraki might think he is a savvy politician, he would learn that Nigerian people would NEVER accept a back-stabbing and self-serving politician as their president. His naked aggression against the constitution, the Nigerian people and his party now, APC will further reduce him to the little man he has always been.

Never in the history of politics in Nigeria or anywhere else on this planet has a minority party held a high office like the Senate Deputy President and naming Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State as a minority leader would not deliver south-south to him in 2019 or beyond besides, he will not get PDP nomination. If he changes party now, he will lose his senate seat. Why would PMB see him, Saraki wants his job and he does not seem to understand politics as he thinks he does, parading himself in Borno State with internally displaced people (IDPs). Did someone not tell him, he is not elected by all Nigerians across as the president, not even elected by 65% of the Senate, only 58 did out of 109 senators. The apple does not fall too far from the tree!

Saraki and Dogara, Will the Real PDP Legislators Please Stand Up? – The Twin of the same coin in the new democracy!

The other day, I saw one Tim Frank, Deputy Publicity Secretary of APC talking on AIT claiming that Saraki did not do anything wrong and that PDP merely was practicing democracy indeed. In a country where everyone is an expert, it is interesting that 58 unsworn-in senators (about half of the total number) could elect a senate president under a rule (for that rule to be effective, the senators-elect would have been sworn in but they were not) that if contested could easily be challenged and overruled by a competent Supreme Court (not President Jonathan’s Supreme Court that interfered with the law making authority of NASS in early this year. The Court lacked competency to even accept that case, there are three co-branches of government, NASS, the court and the presidency. The Court could only rule on the constitutionality of a law once it is passed not in the law-making as it did last time).
Like Saraki, Dogara too could not even get the majority of his APC caucus to vote for him but relied on PDP to the rescue. Both of them got exceedingly few votes from their party, APC, the worst on record for any candidate in recent years for such offices. While I would have preferred Saraki as Senate President because right from the formation of APC, he had clearly stated what his interest was and no one in the leadership of APC raised any alarm and everyone in the leadership of APC knew as far back as January that Mr. Jonathan had commissioned at least four pollsters and all had returned verdict that not only he was going to lose but also that PDP would lose badly to APC and yet no one in the leadership of APC revisited Saraki’s interest with him. Saraki engaged in retail politics, talking one-on-one with each senator and if the election was truly fair with all the 109 senators present, he probably would have won but he and his clan did not wait. They were in a hurry as shown on television during the voting process as others were prompting the senator-elect reading Saraki’s citation to hurry up and we could see some of them looking back anxiously for their APC colleagues not to show up. They certainly got their wish, no show! In the end, Saraki got all the votes of PDP and about 8 or 9 of his caucus.
Saraki’s supporters were heard saying everyone knew June 9 was Election Day and they had no business to be anywhere else except in the Wells of the Senate Chamber to cast their votes but mind you, these senator-elects were yet to be sworn-in. We postponed national elections from February to later months, March and April, why couldn’t we postpone the NASS elections if we were truly a democracy? Saraki’s point men say the senators should be the only ones to decide who leads them as if that makes sense. For one thing, none of them was voted in as an independent candidate, none of them sent himself to the senate, none of them truly believe in democracy or apparently good governance otherwise why an APC senator was made senate president by PDP and you still think the piper would not dictate the tune? Alhaji Gambo Magaji, a member of APC BoT reminded them that they were voted into NASS through APC tickets and APC leadership had reluctantly accepted them as Senate President and Speaker but in return they should toe the party line. Fair enough, you would think but not for the two juggernauts, they are determined to let their ambition override the interest of all. What a shame. By acting above your party has shown Nigerians that you are not to be trusted with responsibility because to whom much power is given, there is greater responsibility that comes with such.
Dogara is in a worst position because this is déjà vu all over again; remember 2011 when Mr. Tambuwal became the Speaker? Dogara did poorly, got only 39 votes from his very caucus, APC and a more experienced candidate, Gbajabiamila from the same party got 175 votes from fellow APC members. Again PDP to the rescue of a recalcitrant APC legislator, Dogara and PDP’s efforts to throw monkey wrench into APC-led government. If you cannot win in your own caucus, you don’t deserve to be a speaker. I fault the APC leadership for this on many grounds and of course Dogara and his coterie bear more responsibility for this disgraceful and self-servicing action. Their will is not the will of the majority of Nigerians yet they like Saraki and Frank claimed that democracy was in action. That was not democracy but politics of self-serving, unpatriotic and a disloyalty or fidelity to the party that brought them in. The party leadership unbeknownst to anyone in the party decided to hold primary (a democracy in action) except that it failed to give both candidates as reported by a Dogara supporter in the House, 24 hours notice so that they could launch their campaigns. The leadership decided it was going to give its elected members a take-it-or-leave-it offer, Dogara crowd walked out and earned three votes but his rival, Gbajabiamila, got 174 who had served as a minority leader for at least 4 years. That party leadership failure of monumental proportion was what undermined democracy and hamper APC’s agenda and may prove so costly for an inchoate political party. The leadership should have been flexible, accommodating and allow for all candidates to campaign before the APC primary. Dogara saw the ego of the leadership at play and he moved in with alacrity but with little to no experience depending on PDP’s votes, which would not augur well for democracy, APC, PDP, Buhari and the nation as a whole. PDP’s singular goal is to assure a return of PDP to Aso Rock and a majority in both houses at the next election, it is interested in protecting PDP’s interest only, after all PDP did not promise a change, APC did. PDP’s job is not to protect and help APC run the government and that is understandable, the two are not the same party. Again, the piper dictates the tune, does anyone in Nigeria or outside Nigeria believes that PDP would not? Dogara and Saraki should have acted like team players but their ambition and indiscipline got in the way of Nigeria business. They were each told by their party leadership via a proposal to appoint certain members (that is not democracy either but we seem to be making it up as we progress) and they refused, shown nothing more than indiscipline and their interests supersede the party’s agenda and manifesto. What a country! Dogara will underutilize Gbajabiamila by asking him to serve as chair, Constitution Review Committee, a toothless committee. I guess a student has become the teacher, trying in his perverse way teaching Gbajabiamila the constitution, an attorney like himself who actually practiced law in two continents. Dogara’s failure to select Gbajabiamila as Majority Leader of their party and Mohammed Moguno as Deputy Majority Leader hangs on his misreading of the constitution by stating that such would violate federal character principle as if these were appointees (like I said democracy means the APC caucus would elect their own majority leaders and certainly that would not offend the sensibility of the federal character principles as perceived by the Honorable Dogara). Since Dogara wants to go on this trip of federal character principle, the president is from the north, the senate president from the north and he is certainly from the north, and if I might say where is the Chief Justice from? All the leaders of the three branches of government from the north? Where is the federal character principle here? Federal character principle, he says with effrontery yet, it is of no consequence in elections that are fair and honorable. Yes, Dogara unlike Saraki waited for all members of the House and that earns him a point but why should a party field two candidates or the same position? That again is the failure of both the party leadership and the APC caucus in the House. Dogara with his 39 APC-members want to push APC caucus around, saying in effect that Gbajabiamila could not be the Majority Leader, call it what you want, it seems like old scores again, the one that his caucus elected and in a true democracy should have been Speaker except for the politics of self-serving and ethno-centric.
Now Saraki and Dogara do not seem to believe in democracy when it came to electing majority and minority leaders for each of the two houses otherwise why would they select leaders for APC and PDP caucuses? In a true democracy, PDP should be able to elect its minority leader without interference from the Senate President or Speaker and that also applies to APC. It is not Dogara’s or Saraki’s business to appoint by any means who should lead their caucuses but that is exactly what these two gentlemen are doing. Apparently being a Senate President or Speaker, you can push your colleagues around. Arrogance of power, the perceived power is always a two-edge knife and in the end, the true power rests with the people. A wise SAN, Mr. Robert Clark observed that the constitution or the Green or Red Book did not support those so-called elections that brought the two to power. The only way forward for this nation of over 170 million is to void those elections and inculcate the supremacy of a party but with flexibility. Saraki is free to run again and I am sure he would probably win the majority of his party in the senate but I am not sure if Dogara can. Those two are now running around as if all Nigerians like the President elected them. You were even elected by one-third or less than that of your state. One wonders why some Western nations’ ambassadors and high commissioners have been parading themselves at these two Nigerians’ offices to pledge loyalty or whatever. How would anyone of these foreign governments’ representatives feel if Nigerian ambassadors and/or high commissioners making courtesy calls at their heads of parliaments, speakers and senate presidents? On foreign affairs, the President speaks for all not the speaker or senate president; they should know that as we are practicing the form of government they developed. I ask them to have respect for our constitution and our country, stop paying homage to our legislators; they are neither the kings nor the “twin”- Presidents.
In conclusion all those that joined APC, did so voluntarily but are subject to the constitution of the party. The likes of Saraki and Dogara have failed that allegiance to APC but Saraki’s remains an ulcer that would not heal well, whoever had of an opposition party with fewer elected members holding leadership position in the senate? This is the first in Nigerian nascent democracy. Bukola or Abubakar Saraki knows full well, no political member of a party is superior to the party, for a party to regain its status, it cannot accept this behavior which is neither a gentlemanly nor portents well for even Saraki’s political ambition and well-being. Indiscipline and corruption are the two bedeviling Nigeria and the actions of these two APC legislators have shown they lack the discipline and are corruptible in the political sense. Buhari reiterated when he met with the leadership of the party at Aso Rock plus Saraki and
Yakubu Dogara the belief of the party supremacy and therefore it is not negotiable. For order and discipline, the party is always superior to all including ambitious and self-serving individuals. A party needs experience and competent leadership in the NASS. The attempt to terrify APC leadership particularly Tinubu by cutting off Tinubu who for many years was the chief financial of the party and the architect of remaking Buhari acceptable to all Nigerians and international community and threatening general chaos, all with the almost open goal of pushing the current party-backed elected NASS members and the party leadership into oblivion— was a shameful moment in a Nigeria that claims to believe in democratic principles. It would have set a terrible precedent if that campaign of indiscipline and corruption as epitomized by Saraki and Dogara had succeeded without a pushback, even if the rebellious two especially Saraki were making sense. Democracy thrives when we all understand the rules and actively do our best to operate under the rules, the masses that we claim to represent will enjoy the fruits of democracy when we actively subject ourselves to the rules.

If I were so lucky to marry Senate President!

Did you see Senator from Kogi State, Mr. Dino Melaye, escorting Mrs. Toyin Saraki, the wife of the Senate President to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)?. Don’t you wish you marry Mr. Saraki and have a senator that has no shame to escort you to an investigation being conducted on you by a federal agency for possible financial grafts? That is exactly what this senator did and he was so proud of himself issuing statement, “Stand Up For What You Believe In,” such as you can only be a good friend to someone’s wife by following her to the anti-graft agency because according to him, he has survived assassination attempts on his life and jailed 14 times. What is that got to do with the price of tea in China? So, what does he believe, to intimidate a federal agency conducting a routine lawful investigation but I guess if you are the spouse of high-ups, you must not be investigated? What does he believe, acting like a fool, displaying arrogance and lack of respect for due process? Why is he making it about himself not about a legitimate investigation or

Mrs. Saraki is untouchable, different rules for the general public (justice equals just for us) but for him and his colleagues, you must not. A display of a pretty little man and abuse of the privilege of being a senator, attempting to interfere with federal investigation that he fully knows it is not an indictment because he said so in his statement, “[t]he invitation of Mrs. Toyin Saraki by the EFCC, however, is not a criminal indictment. I will not abandon my friend because of mere EFCC invitation.” Then, why was Melaye there in the first place, does it make it a habit to follow his friends’ wives to investigations? Mrs. Saraki does not need him following her to EFCC Office, she has a powerful husband.  Remember Dino, the legislator that was fighting in the House and have his clothes torn, that is he but for Saraki, he is a senator from Kogi State and by his almighty power, Saraki made him the Chair of Senate Media Matters Committee.  Saraki continues to bastardize the senate for his personal interest but he will soon know that he is nothing than a little man pretending to be a big man, undermining democracy and an enemy of his party’s agenda for a great Nigeria.

Saraki and Dogara, Will the Real PDP Legislators Please Stand Up? – The Twin of the same coin in the new democracy!

The other day, I saw one Tim Frank, Deputy Publicity Secretary of APC talking on AIT claiming that Saraki did not do anything wrong and that PDP merely was practicing democracy indeed. In a country where everyone is an expert, it is interesting that 58 unsworn-in senators (about half of the total number) could elect a senate president under a rule (for that rule to be effective, the senators-elect would have been sworn in but they were not) that if contested could easily be challenged and overruled by a competent Supreme Court (not President Jonathan’s Supreme Court that interfered with the law making authority of NASS in early this year. The Court lacked competency to even accept that case, there are three co-branches of government, NASS, the court and the presidency. The Court could only rule on the constitutionality of a law once it is passed not in the law-making as it did last time).

Like Saraki, Dogara too could not even get the majority of his APC caucus to vote for him but relied on PDP to the rescue. Both of them got exceedingly few votes from their party, APC, the worst on record for any candidate in recent years for such offices. While I would have preferred Saraki as Senate President because right from the formation of APC, he had clearly stated what his interest was and no one in the leadership of APC raised any alarm and everyone in the leadership of APC knew as far back as January that Mr. Jonathan had commissioned at least four pollsters and all had returned verdict that not only he was going to lose but also that PDP would lose badly to APC and yet no one in the leadership of APC revisited Saraki’s interest with him. Saraki engaged in retail politics, talking one-on-one with each senator and if the election was truly fair with all the 109 senators present, he probably would have won but he and his clan did not wait. They were in a hurry as shown on television during the voting process as others were prompting the senator-elect reading Saraki’s citation to hurry up and we could see some of them looking back anxiously for their APC colleagues not to show up. They certainly got their wish, no show! In the end, Saraki got all the votes of PDP and about 8 or 9 of his caucus.

Saraki’s supporters were heard saying everyone knew June 9 was Election Day and they had no business to be anywhere else except in the Wells of the Senate Chamber to cast their votes but mind you, these senator-elects were yet to be sworn-in. We postponed national elections from February to later months, March and April, why couldn’t we postpone the NASS elections if we were truly a democracy? Saraki’s point men say the senators should be the only ones to decide who leads them as if that makes sense. For one thing, none of them was voted in as an independent candidate, none of them sent himself to the senate, none of them truly believe in democracy or apparently good governance otherwise why an APC senator was made senate president by PDP and you still think the piper would not dictate the tune? Alhaji Gambo Magaji, a member of APC BoT reminded them that they were voted into NASS through APC tickets and APC leadership had reluctantly accepted them as Senate President and Speaker but in return they should toe the party line. Fair enough, you would think but not for the two juggernauts, they are determined to let their ambition override the interest of all. What a shame. By acting above your party has shown Nigerians that you are not to be trusted with responsibility because to whom much power is given, there is greater responsibility that comes with such.

Dogara is in a worst position because this is déjà vu all over again; remember 2011 when Mr. Tambuwal became the Speaker? Dogara did poorly, got only 39 votes from his very caucus, APC and a more experienced candidate, Gbajabiamila from the same party got 175 votes from fellow APC members. Again PDP to the rescue of a recalcitrant APC legislator, Dogara and PDP’s efforts to throw monkey wrench into APC-led government. If you cannot win in your own caucus, you don’t deserve to be a speaker. I fault the APC leadership for this on many grounds and of course Dogara and his coterie bear more responsibility for this disgraceful and self-servicing action. Their will is not the will of the majority of Nigerians yet they like Saraki and Frank claimed that democracy was in action. That was not democracy but politics of self-serving, unpatriotic and a disloyalty or fidelity to the party that brought them in. The party leadership unbeknownst to anyone in the party decided to hold primary (a democracy in action) except that it failed to give both candidates as reported by a Dogara supporter in the House, 24 hours notice so that they could launch their campaigns. The leadership decided it was going to give its elected members a take-it-or-leave-it offer, Dogara crowd walked out and earned three votes but his rival, Gbajabiamila, got 174 who had served as a minority leader for at least 4 years. That party leadership failure of monumental proportion was what undermined democracy and hamper APC’s agenda and may prove so costly for an inchoate political party. The leadership should have been flexible, accommodating and allow for all candidates to campaign before the APC primary. Dogara saw the ego of the leadership at play and he moved in with alacrity but with little to no experience depending on PDP’s votes, which would not augur well for democracy, APC, PDP, Buhari and the nation as a whole. PDP’s singular goal is to assure a return of PDP to Aso Rock and a majority in both houses at the next election, it is interested in protecting PDP’s interest only, after all PDP did not promise a change, APC did. PDP’s job is not to protect and help APC run the government and that is understandable, the two are not the same party. Again, the piper dictates the tune, does anyone in Nigeria or outside Nigeria believes that PDP would not? Dogara and Saraki should have acted like team players but their ambition and indiscipline got in the way of Nigeria business. They were each told by their party leadership via a proposal to appoint certain members (that is not democracy either but we seem to be making it up as we progress) and they refused, shown nothing more than indiscipline and their interests supersede the party’s agenda and manifesto. What a country! Dogara will underutilize Gbajabiamila by asking him to serve as chair, Constitution Review Committee, a toothless committee. I guess a student has become the teacher, trying in his perverse way teaching Gbajabiamila the constitution, an attorney like himself who actually practiced law in two continents. Dogara’s failure to select Gbajabiamila as Majority Leader of their party and Mohammed Moguno as Deputy Majority Leader hangs on his misreading of the constitution by stating that such would violate federal character principle as if these were appointees (like I said democracy means the APC caucus would elect their own majority leaders and certainly that would not offend the sensibility of the federal character principles as perceived by the Honorable Dogara). Since Dogara wants to go on this trip of federal character principle, the president is from the north, the senate president from the north and he is certainly from the north, and if I might say where is the Chief Justice from? All the leaders of the three branches of government from the north? Where is the federal character principle here? Federal character principle, he says with effrontery yet, it is of no consequence in elections that are fair and honorable. Yes, Dogara unlike Saraki waited for all members of the House and that earns him a point but why should a party field two candidates for the same position? That again is the failure of both the party leadership and the APC caucus in the House. Dogara with his 39 APC-members want to push APC caucus around, saying in effect that Gbajabiamila could not be the Majority Leader, call it what you want, it seems like old scores again, the one that his caucus elected and in a true democracy should have been Speaker except for the politics of self-serving and ethno-centric.

Now Saraki and Dogara do not seem to believe in democracy when it came to electing majority and minority leaders for each of the two houses otherwise why would they select leaders for APC and PDP caucuses? In a true democracy, PDP should be able to elect its minority leader without interference from the Senate President or Speaker and that also applies to APC. It is not Dogara’s or Saraki’s business to appoint by any means who should lead their caucuses but that is exactly what these two gentlemen are doing. Apparently being a Senate President or Speaker, you can push your colleagues around. Arrogance of power, the perceived power is always a two-edge knife and in the end, the true power rests with the people. A wise SAN, Mr. Robert Clark observed that the constitution or the Green or Red Book did not support those so-called elections that brought the two to power. The only way forward for this nation of over 170 million is to void those elections and inculcate the supremacy of a party but with flexibility. Saraki is free to run again and I am sure he would probably win the majority of his party in the senate but I am not sure if Dogara can. Those two are now running around as if all Nigerians like the President elected them. You were even elected by one-third or less than that of your state. One wonders why some Western nations’ ambassadors and high commissioners have been parading themselves at these two Nigerians’ offices to pledge loyalty or whatever. How would anyone of these foreign governments’ representatives feel if Nigerian ambassadors and/or high commissioners making courtesy calls at their heads of parliaments, speakers and senate presidents? On foreign affairs, the President speaks for all not the speaker or senate president; they should know that as we are practicing the form of government they developed. I ask them to have respect for our constitution and our country, stop paying homage to our legislators; they are neither the kings nor the “twin”- Presidents.

In conclusion all those that joined APC, did so voluntarily but are subject to the constitution of the party. The likes of Saraki and Dogara have failed that allegiance to APC but Saraki’s remains an ulcer that would not heal well, whoever had of an opposition party with fewer elected members holding leadership position in the senate? This is the first in Nigerian nascent democracy. Bukola or Abubakar Saraki knows full well, no political member of a party is superior to the party, for a party to regain its status, it cannot accept this behavior which is neither a gentlemanly nor portents well for even Saraki’s political ambition and well-being. Indiscipline and corruption are the two bedeviling Nigeria and the actions of these two APC legislators have shown they lack the discipline and are corruptible in the political sense. Buhari reiterated when he met with the leadership of the party at Aso Rock plus Saraki and Yakubu Dogara the belief of the party supremacy and therefore it is not negotiable. For order and discipline, the party is always superior to all including ambitious and self-serving individuals. A party needs experience and competent leadership in the NASS. The attempt to terrify APC leadership particularly Tinubu by cutting off Tinubu who for many years was the chief financier of the party and the architect of remaking and rebranding of Buhari so as to be acceptable to all Nigerians and international community and threatening general chaos, all with the almost open goal of pushing the current party-backed elected NASS members and the party leadership into oblivion— was a shameful moment in a Nigeria that claims to believe in democratic principles. It would have set a terrible precedent if that campaign of indiscipline and corruption as epitomized by Saraki and Dogara had succeeded without a pushback, even if the rebellious two especially Saraki were making sense. Democracy thrives when we all understand the rules and actively do our best to operate under the rules, the masses that we claim to represent will enjoy the fruits of democracy when we actively subject ourselves to the rules.

Both Saraki and Dogara know full well the ramification of vacating the party, they would lose their legislative authorities, return to their home-states to re-contest and there is no assurance they would win, let alone return to their “old jobs.” Think about that for a moment, with all the chest beating like the big bad gorilla by Dogara but if that is what we must do, let’s get busy! If they are too involved in their parochial world instead of building democracy in Nigeria, let’s the re-education of Dogara and Saraki begin.

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