Stop shedding crocodile tears for democracy, Kwara Must Change tells Saraki
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Says former Senate President lacks moral right to criticize KWHA over member’s suspension_
A leading Pro-Democracy group in Kwara State, Kwara Must Change has advised former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki to enjoy his political retirement and stop preaching what he does not practice while leading the Senate of Nigeria.
The group, which was reacting to Saraki’s criticism of the Kwara State House of Assembly over suspension of one of its members, Hon Jimoh Agboola stated that, the former Senate president lacks moral right to criticize Kwara State House of Assembly, because under his leadership as senate president, he did not only suspended two senators, but also refused to honour court a judgement on the matter, until he was compelled to do so by the court.
In a statement by the Convener of Kwara Must Change, Mr Abdulrazaq Hamzat, the group stated that, those who do not brush their teeth cannot be advertising tooth paste and those who did not have clean hands cannot come to equity.
According to Hamzat, Bukola Saraki led senate suspended Senator Ali Ndume for the most petty allegation in 2017 and just a year later, the red chamber also suspended Senator Ovie Omo Agege, now the Deputy Senate President.
“Sen Ali Ndume was suspended by the Saraki led senate for 6 months, and the suspension was later increased to 8 months, after which the Senator was later recalled to the house”
“Sen Ovie Omo Agege on the other hand was suspended for 90 days and both Omo Agege and Ali Ndume won their respective court cases against the Senate” Hamzat said.
The Kwara Must Change Convener expressed shock that the same Saraki, who refused to honour court judgement on Sen Omo Agege’s matter until he was compelled to do so by the court is today speaking about democracy as if he really cared about democracy.
Hamzat advised Dr Saraki to stop shedding crocodile tears for democracy because he’s one of those who laid very bad precedence for the Legislative arm of government in Nigeria.
Kwara Must Change therefore concluded that, the Kwara state Assembly should jettison Saraki’s precedence and chart a better course.
Recall that Kwara Must Change had encouraged Kwara State House of Assembly to expunge suspension and other unconstitutional rules from their bylaws.
The group also noted that there’s no law in Nigeria that empowered any lawmaking body to suspend members indefinately, arguing that such amount to denying the constituents of representation.
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