- Nasarawa state senator, Abdullahi Adamu calls on admonished his colleagues “plotting” against President Muhammadu Buhari to quit APC
- Adamu also took a swipe at some APC lawmakers for sitting on the fence in order to sabotage President Buhari
- The former Nasarawa state governor asked APC members in all the 36 states to pay attention to what their representatives are doing in the National Assembly
Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC Nasarawa) on Monday, February 26, admonished his colleagues and members of the House of Representatives “plotting” against President Muhammadu Buhari to quit the All Progressives Congress (APC), The Nation reports.
Adamu who spoke in Keffi, Nasarawa State while addressing party members, also condemned some APC senators and Reps for sitting on the fence in order to sabotage Buhari.
According to him, there is no point using a party platform to win elections only to be disrespecting the party in the name of legislative immunity and to be plotting against the President.
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He berated such National Assembly members for cutting the umbilical cord between them and their party.
The ex-Nasarawa state governor told the crowd: “You don’t want the party for any reason, you feel you are not part of it, get out of it. We know who we are, we can count our heads, that you stay in a party and you are grumbling, and you are doing anti-party activities, you are sabotaging the party.
“Sabotaging President Muhammadu Buhari by any APC Senator or House of Reps member or House of Assembly member or Local Government Council member is sabotage against the government. I can understand if a PDP person doesn’t want to be supporting, he should find a means of drawing that line between loyalty to the constitution of the country, and his anti-government mentality.
“Even if you are PDP and a member of the National Assembly, there are situations where you are supposed to be bipartisan, meaning there is a limit to where you can go by being anti -government because the person occupying the presidency is not from your party.
“Only those who know such limits, and are ready to abide by such limits are the ones who can answer their father’s name in the national assembly.
“If you want to oppose, go, come with your manifesto, tell us what you will do differently if you are the one there and let Nigerians decide.
“But don’t hide under the immunity, parliamentary immunity and misbehave. Some of us cannot live with it, we will fight it.
“ I was not elected in the national assembly, I was elected in my constituency, and to my constituency I will return. If you are a member of the National Assembly, the Senate or the House of Reps, the State Assembly, you are elected by a constituency and you don’t go to the National Assembly and behave like the proverbial masquerade which late Nnamdi Azikiwe talked about, that goes to the public square with a rope tied to its waist, and when he cuts the ropes off, the masquerade is on its own. That is how some of these National Assembly members are now doing.
“They are now cutting the umbilical cord between them and their party, between them and their constituencies. We do not want to be counted among them.”
“What has brought the situation you have come to talk about is because we do know what our mission is and we do not want to mix our personal interest to undermine national interest. We will not do this, no matter the cost, no matter the pain."
The former governor asked APC members in all the 36 states to pay keen interest on what their representatives are doing in the National Assembly, adding that it was wrong to be elected into the assembly on the platform of a party and be engaging in anti-party activities.
“And today as we talk, the person God has chosen to be the president of this country, the symbol of the sovereignty of this nation is President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Those who don’t accept this are being ungodly. Those who don’t accept this reality are deceiving themselves more than any other person, and they should be careful of the wrath of God Himself. Power belongs to God, power comes from God, not anybody," he said.
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According to an earlier report by NAIJ.com, the senator representing Nasarawa west in the national assembly, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said that he would always continue to defend President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration.
Vanguard reports that Adamu who was sacked last week as the chairman of the Northern Senators’ Forum (NSF) disclosed this as a meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC)’s stakeholders in Nasarawa.
The senator was only last week removed as the chairman of the NSF over allegations of misappropriating N70 million belonging to the forum.
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Source: Naija.ng
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Tuesday, 27 February 2018