NASS Leadership: We Can’t Let Tinubu Rule Us By Dictatorship – APC Chieftain

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano
state, Abdulmajid Danbilki Commander, has blamed the National Leader of
the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahamed Tinubu of using excessive fiat in
determining the new leadership of the National Assembly.

Commander,
who is a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, alleged that
Tinubu was dictating the tune of northern politics and the affairs of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) under current move to get a set of
NASS leadership.

In a statement he signed today, Commander
said it was high time for northern politicians to detach themselves
from acceding to Tinibu’s dictatorial tendency of making notable
northern politicians subservient to his whims and caprices.

He
alleged that APC had greatly suffered under Tinubu’s capricious design,
saying “Tinibu as a politician has forgotten the way and manner the
northern part of the country fought some maverick politicians to a
stand-still.

“Affirming that it would be foolhardy for
politicians in the north to play second fiddle in the present democratic
dispensation, I wondered why northern politicians should allow Tinubu
to dictate the tune of northern politics at the expense of those who had
fought tooth and nail in making the APC formidable positing that the
rot that had permeated the party in the past as a result of
leadership crisis could be partly attributed to his dictatorial
permutations,” he stated.

He said northern politicians would no
longer be used as cannon-fodders in promoting the egocentric
postulations of certain politicians since they were at an ample liberty
to discern what is politically expedient.

He pointed out that in
an ideal democratic setting, the will of an individual must not be
allowed to surpass the collective interest of those having a stake in
the polity.

Commenting on the present tussle for the leadership
of the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly, the APC
chieftain however stated that the will of the majority must be allowed
to prevail against the primordial interest of certain individuals
stressing that imposing leaders on the two legislative chambers at the
instance of Tinibu would be counter-productive.

He however stated
that northern politicians in both houses of congress, have Senator Ali
Ndume as their preferred choice and not Senator Ahmed Lawan with Umar
Babu tipped by many in the lower chamber to be the Speaker.

He
added that zoning the leadership of the two chambers was never
encapsulated in the constitution and that the will of the majority
should ideally be allowed to take precedence.

On the persistent
spate of kidnapping on Kaduna-Abuja expressway by some kidnappers, the
APC Chieftain called on President Buhari to properly check the
methodology of security operations on the high way for grey areas to be
tackled.

He said that by effecting proper checks of the system, those sabotaging his effort would be shown the way out.

Source:- Dailytrustng