APC to Saraki, PDP: Don’t dictate for us
Tom Okpe, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has told Senate President Bukola Saraki and the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to mind their own business, not to dictate for it on how the election of principal officers of the National Assembly should be conducted.
Recall that Saraki earlier advised the ruling party leaders to allow lawmakers to choose their leaders on the floor of the house after inauguration so that stability of the 9th Assembly will be achieved.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Monday, Saraki bemoaned the politics around the process of electing the presiding officers of the national legislature.
While reacting to Saraki’s advice, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Lanre Issah Onilu told Daily Times that it was not in the position of the main opposition party to dictate for the ruling party what to to do and how to elect it’s leaders at the next National Assembly.
He said; “The position of the party remains that those positions that belong to the majority party belong to us. Members of the minority party should mind their own business.
They should find a way of occupying the positions that belong to them. It is not in their place to start telling us what to do and what not to do”.
