Withdrawal of support for BUHARI: APC senators dare PDP counterparts

Task President not to look back in anti-corruption war 

 ABUJA—SENATORS of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, dared their opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterparts to withdraw their support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. PDP senators, Wednesday, declared that they were withdrawing their cooperation with the government, alleging harassment of party loyalists in the government’s anti-corruption war.

 President Muhammadu Buhari But the APC senators, who, however, declared their support for the Senate leadership, even as they remained evasive on their support or otherwise of the planned trial of of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged forgery  of Senate Standing Rules, asked President Buhari to remain unshakable in his anti-corruption fight. 

Addressing a press conference in Abuja, the ruling party senators insisted that no amount of threat from their PDP counterparts would make them back down on their support for the President’s programmes and policies which, they alleged, were being considered unfavourable by their PDP counterparts. Reading a prepared text through the Senate Deputy Majority Leader, Sola Adeyeye, the APC senators accused their PDP counterparts of mischief against their party and President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the President’s fight against corruption was within the ambit of the nation’s laws.

 Staunch loyalists of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, were conspicuously absent at the briefing, indicating that all is not well in the caucus of the party which has a total of 57 senators. Only 16 of the APC senators, including Ovie Omo-Agege, were present at the briefing. The text read: “The Joint Caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Labour Party senators in the Senate are stoutly behind the policies and programmes of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

 Our support is aimed at actualizing the promised, desired change that Nigerians voted for last year. ‘’We are shocked at the totally partisan reaction of our colleagues from the opposition party, PDP, to the on-going investigations and recovery of public funds meant for the prosecution of the war against insurgency.