APC Lagos in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe
has asked the Senate leadership to cover its head in shame for
trampling on the integrity of due process by confirming a person that
was deeply implicated in an election rigging plot in Ekiti as a Minister
despite wide ranging protests against his nomination.
Here’s part of the statement;
“It is obvious that the PDP presidency that nominated Obanikoro and the
PDP members of the Senate that forced through decency and protests of
Nigerians to approve his nomination are hell bent on corrupting both the
laws and institutions of the Nigerian State by that howling act of
rewarding criminality,” the party said.
“It was obvious that the ministerial nomination and the controversial
confirmation are means by which a corrupt and senseless party wants to
mock Nigerians, mock its laws and mock decency to reward a character
that should be docked for crimes against the state. It is just too
absurd that a party should visit these illegalities on a nation.
“The country is once again, assailed by the lawless inclination of the
PDP as a party that thrives in such criminality as election rigging and
which uses same to reward perpetrators who should be jailed for high
crime which the Ekitigate scandal amounts to. What the Senate and its
PDP members forced through in confirming Obanikoro is the audacious
reign of illegality and impunity and Nigerians have a golden chance to
throw the PDP to the dustbin of history on March 28.
“We note that the outgoing President, who was alleged to have set up the
Ekiti rigging plot has bluntly refused to investigate the Ekiti scandal
but had rather nominated Obanikoro for ministerial position when he
should be docked. It is also important to note that the PDP members of
the Senate practically forced Obanikoro’s confirmation through the stout
resistance of the APC senators, the human rights community, the press
and the critical mass that see the entire process as rewarding crime and
have therefore called for the withdrawal of Obanikoro’s nomination.
“While we call on the country’s media, civil society groups and the
critical mass to continue to insist that this reward for criminality
does not stand, we urge Nigerians to see in the appointment and
confirmation of Obanikoro as PDP’s bold statement on impunity and
corruption, which it had made cornerstones of its misrule and throw out
the PDP with the vehemence of a people tired of such brazen promotion of
criminality by a cabal that sees Nigeria as its private estate. We urge
Nigerians to make a loud issue of the nomination and confirmation of an
alleged election rigger as a minister few weeks to a critical election,
as an insult to our collective intelligence and one of the primary
reasons to throw out the PDP with an emphatic thud on March 28.”
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