APC would kill Labour Party and the PDP if they win Minority Leadership in the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani exclaimed.
Shehu Sani, a former legislator from Kaduna Central, has claimed that if the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, wins the position of Minority Leader, it will be the end of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party in the National Assembly.
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: Senate President Akpabio Makes First Group Of Appointments
Sani mentioned this during an interview with Arise Television. The signs are that they APC want to have a Minority Leader who is a stooge of the ruling party, and when it is done, it will be the death of the opposition PDP in the National Assembly, he said.
That is why you hear more of the Labour Party doing opposition today. The PDP has mortgaged its position as the major opposition to the Labour Party.
No one is saying you should go to the National Assembly and fight the executive, but we all know that the National Assembly’s dignity is centered on its independence. If APC gets everything, there will be no independence.
In a parliamentary system, the Minority Leader functions as an alternative government. But it would be better for the country if we had a Minority Leader who would act as the opposition, he remarked.
Remember that Godswill Akpabio and Jibrin Barawere elected Senate President and Deputy Senate President of the 10th Senate, respectively, while Tajudeen Abbas and Benjamin Kalu were elected Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.
While Barau and Kalu were unchallenged, Akpabio won after a close battle, and Abass won by a landslide over his two opponents.
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: MOSOP Warns Tinubu Against Oil Protection Contract
In the Senate, where all 109 senators voted, Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State and one-time Senate Minority Leader, received 63 votes to defeat Senator Abdulaziz Yari (APC, Zamfara West), a former governor of Zamfara State, who received 46 votes.
Abass had an easy day in the House of Representatives, when 353 of the 359 newly elected legislators supported him. His opponents, Idris Wase and Aminu Jaji, each received three votes.
