With the victory recorded by the APC
candidate winning the House of Representatives by-election in Kwara state last
Saturday, Adams Oshiomhole, the APC national chairman has said the end of
Saraki’s rule in Kwara is near.
He said this on Monday in Abuja,
while speaking with newsmen at the end of a meeting of the party`s National
Working Committee (NWC).
The All Progressives Congress (APC)
National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, said that the people of Kwara will retire
Sen. Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate from active politics in 2019.
Oshiomhole stressed that the way the
people of Kwara voted in Saturday`s House of Representatives by-election in the
state, was an attestation that they were tired of Saraki mismanaging their
political life.
“I am sure Saraki would be
politically retired by the good people of Kwara whom he has mismanaged their
economic and political rights over the years.
“I am very excited about that and we
think that this is something worth celebrating and we took time to celebrate it
today,” Oshiomhole said.
He added that the APC was proud of
the fact that since the assumption of the party`s current NWC which he headed
on June 24, it had not lost any major election.
Oshiomhole further added that the
party`s victory in Saturday`s by-election in Bauchi, Kastina and Kwara states
was a prove that the APC was still the preferred party of Nigerians.
“More outstanding for me and the
APC, both the leadership and the membership, is the humiliating defeat that
Sen. Bukola Saraki suffered in the hands of Kwara people.
“What the people of Kwara have done
to him is that they are going to politically bury him come February next year
and he has seen the first warning,” he said.
He said that Kwara people, based on
the outcome of the election, had dealt with Saraki a political blow.
This, he said, was most humiliating
since Saraki was the acclaimed leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in Kwara, and had recently led elections in other states.
“Here is a native doctor who was
busy going to other states, now unable to heal his own people in his own state,
that defeat in Kwara is most outstanding,” the APC national chairman stressed.
He said this was particularly so,
because the candidate who won the election was not put in place by anybody
close to Saraki.
He, however, said that the APC would
not accept a Nigerian variant where a minority party presided over the affairs
of the National Assembly, saying that it was not right.
Meanwhile, the
Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) in Kwara state has described the outcome of
the House Representatives bye-election in Ekiti/Oke-Ero/Isin/Irepodun Federal
constituency as a daylight robbery.
PDP added that the result did not reflect the will of the
people as its members were harassed and intimidated during the poll.
It rejected the results of the bye-election in which the
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Raheem Tunji Olawuyi, was
declared winner.
