National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has accused the immediate past leadership of the party and the Presidency of complacency in the power game that threw up the principal officers of the National Assembly.
He made the declaration on Monday while addressing members of the screening committee of the party.
Recall that the Presidency, the national working committee of the party on one hand and leadership of the national assembly have been embroiled in cold war since the inception of the present administration.
Both the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara have since defected to the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party.
In a veiled reference to the duo of Senator Saraki and Honourable Dogara, Comrade Oshiomhole said the APC has learnt
from the mistake of the past where people he described as bread and butter politicians were given tickets of the party.
He said: “If before now we have taken for granted the powers of the National Assembly, how those powers can be used for national goals and how it can also be misused to undermine national progress, the current situation we are facing here, where two principal officers have chosen to put their personal interest over and above the national interest.
Refusing to consider budget meant for physical infrastructure. Budget meant to re-order the way our budget is executed, to move money away from consumption which recurrent expenditure represents to capital projects which will benefit our people.
“And even refusing to approve money meant for the body charged with the responsibility of conducting elections in 2019. For us, as a party we have chosen to learn from the positive lessons from this development so that we do not repeat those mistakes by selecting people who as far as human capacity is we can assess and predict that if elected they will remain faithful not only to our party but more importantly to the Nigerian nation.
“If we have disagreement it will not be about juicy appointment, it will be about appropriate policies, it will be about how governance is impacting positively on the lives of Nigerians. It will not be about who is getting what, politics of sharing”.
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