Expel SARAKI and DOGARA ?

 


It is being argued in the public court whether APC,  the party under which BUKOLA SARAKI and DOGARA pictured above were elected should sack/ expel them or not. Why are people asking for them to be expelled?  its because of disregard to their party's directive on the selection of Officers of the 8th National Assembly.

But we need to look at the antecedent. Since the beginning of this democratic experience in 1999, impunity has prevailed within the Nigerian political landscape with elected officers decamping from their Parties to another and getting away with it. This has been going on but we need to stop it in order to bring sanity to our political landscape. We must just do something soon. This defection is what is making politicians to indulge in anti party activities, indiscipline, disobedient to party rules. They know they can defect to another party and their former party cannot do anything to sanction them or can their constituency recall them.
Yes it did not start now but it cannot continue. So for sanity within our political space the cancer must be arrested.

Reasons why Nigerians are calling for expulsion of SARAKI and DOGARA from The All Progressive Congress Party:.
1. The 2 were elected under the platform of APC during the General election and the party won majority in both Chambers.
2. In the Senate, APC won 60 seats  and PDP’s 49 to make up the 109 members.
3. In the House of Representatives, APC also has more members than PDP.
4.  A Mock election was conducted by the Party whereby members were elected to be leaders of the 8th Assembly in both Chambers.
5. Two people were chosen by a majority of the members of the APC.
6. The Party seeing the disagreement that the mock election caused, decided to settle the rift calling for a meeting with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
7. The Group led by Bukola Saraki rather than attend the meeting, decided to align with the opposition Party to have their way and even selected a deputy to the Senate President from the opposition Party.
8. In the House of Representatives, against the Party's' directives, another election was held.
9. The Party in order to be accommodating and careful, called them together to settle the rift and pacify the others Lawmakers that were excluded from the initial nomination. But that too was rejected by these 2 (SARAKI and DOGARA).
10. They refused to read the Letters from their Party on the floor of the Chambers so that there are not forced to do what the Party wanted.
11. They ignored their Party, aligned again with the opposition and even nominated people from the opposition as Principal Officers of the Chambers. 

From the above, there are reasons why Saraki and Dogara must be disciplined by the leaders of APC. Its being said that an infected part of the body must be removed so the disease does not spread to other parts of the body.  APC needs to clean its house.  We do not need another set of rebellious Politicians. APC  needs to come together to be formidable Party so these desperate, ambitious traitors must be dealt with so that the CHANGE promised by them can be implemented.

By disregarding their Chairman, The President of Nigeria, they need to be disciplined.

I hope the Political Parties can once again seek interpretation  from the Supreme Court on penalties for defecting Politicians. If not then the Constitution should be amended so that a Politician that defect from one party to another can be expelled and the seat be filled by another. Until that is done, our politicians will continue with this recklessness and rebellious streak.

But before that is done, these 2 must be expelled to serve as a deterrent to others. I know there may be negative consequencies for the ruling party, APC but it has to be done.
We cannot continue with this impunity. Its abuse of process. Nigerians voted out PDP but unfortunately, SARAKI and DOGARA have brought them back to be our leaders instead of floor members. This is a slap on Nigerians. Everywhere you turn to in Nigeria, people are angry with them.