APC CANNOT AFFORD A FRESH LEGISLATIVE COUP THROUGH ALI NDUME!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria. {Vol. 8.NO 294. 31st March, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

APC CANNOT AFFORD A FRESH LEGISLATIVE COUP THROUGH ALI NDUME!

"HURRICANE SARAKI," which crash-landed on Nigeria's topography since June, 2015, finally subsided in February 2019, after four years of stormy onslaught on the nation's political murky waters with devastating effects that almost grounded all socio-economic activities of the ruling government and the already traumatized citizens, but for a timely and appropriate divine intervention according to prophecy!

It is no longer news that OUT-GOING SENATOR 'BUKOLA SARAKI of Kwara State, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Party (APC), in 2014, with the sole aim of becoming the 8th National Assembly Senate President through the precipitation of a civilian coup with the minority members of his former party!
AND THAT, the first term of the ruling APC Administration under the watch of the Change Agent, President Muhammadu Buhari, faced serious socio-economic and insecurity challenges because of the confrontational stance of Saraki and his NASS cohorts, who constituted a horrible clog in the wheel of the progress of a nation already stressed with the maladministration of 1999-2015, is also no longer news!
WHAT IS NEWS is that our prediction that SARAKI, and his notorious clique would FALL AT THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THEY FELL!
Saraki's political life was drowned in the monstrous hurricane of his creation and he has fulfilled the cliché which states that: "He who sows the wind would surely reap the whirlwind"!  The proud and arrogant Saraki kissed the canvass at the feet of a better qualified, humble and adorable candidate of the Kwarans in an "O TO' GE' ", (enough is enough), campaign which mobilized the Electorate of the Kwara Central Senatorial District, to vote him out and break the several years of the Saraki Dynasty YOKE, on Kwara indigenes once and for all!
Would anyone shed tears for the demise of Saraki's inordinate ambition which spanned 2001 - 2019, through clandestine manoeuvres from administrative appointment to the prestigious governorship position of eight years and another two terms as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which has now come to an abrupt end?
IN Saraki's permutation, his political sagacity fetched him a second tenure Senate Presidency as the icing on the cake of his political laurels but, little did he suspect that, that move would back-fire! Perhaps, SENATOR DINO MELAYE OF KOGI STATE - his faithful protégée, who could not swap his re-election seat for his master would at least render him a "Nunc dimittis"!

HISTORY MUST NOT REPEAT ITSELF!
Senator Ali Ndume, representing Bornu South Senatorial District, at the National Assembly, needs no introduction for the obvious reason that he was part the notorious SARAKI COUP, of 9th June, 2015, which almost truncated the lofty ideals in the genuine manifesto of the Change Administration of the APC!
At the onset, they all pretended to be loyal members of the party, who only believed in the separation of powers and total independence of the Legislature from the Executive - an argument that still remained untenable and unreasonable because, they all rode into the Senate on the party's platform and must surely be subject to its supremacy, if truly they were representatives of the people and not TRAITORS, as they turned out to be!
At a particular period when the excesses of the Saraki  group became so negatively manifest, Ali Ndume, repented and stood up to defend APC's position at a plenary discussion and that effrontery attracted the eerie of the chief coupist, Saraki, who wasted no time to whip him into line! Ndume was promptly suspended for SIX LEGISLATIVE MONTHS! (Below are excerpts from our previous publication: Vol. 8. No. 190. 2nd April, 2017, on Ali Ndume).
"THESE POMPOUS SENATORS OF THE 8TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ARE ENEMIES OF THE NIGERIAN MASSES!"
"Why would anyone lament over the SIX-MONTH suspension of Senator Ali Ndume, former majority leader representing Bornu, South, over unproven allegations against Senators Saraki and his godson, Dino Melaye?
Have people forgotten so easily that the TRIO were the ARROWHEADS of Senate coupists who defiantly rejected Party's internal democratic plan of fair contests between interested candidates, but covetously and vexatiously installed themselves as principal officers for the hallowed chamber in connivance with the opposition party on 9th June, 2015, by despising the ruling Party's supremacy?
"They believed then that their "victory" was the unfettered democratic CHANGE that the Electorate deserved, though Party's constitutional procedures and moral responsibility/decorum was shunned, rebuffed and thrown to the dogs for the inordinate ambition of a FEW senators!
On the day of the "COUP", only 57 out of the 109 - which did not fulfil TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY QUORUM of the whole house, voted Saraki and his accomplices to assume positions as principal officers in which the 45 PDP minority members formed the bulk of voters! Who does not know that a house that is divided against itself will definitely fall? The imbroglio being witnessed within the rank and file of the Red Chamber now, is just a tip of the iceberg - the beginning of the end of Saraki and all the Senators who conspired to anoint him as their president has just begun!
"Though the APC was predicated on democratic principles that stresses party supremacy and discipline, these ungrateful former PDP members who coasted to electoral victories on the platform of the APC, constituted themselves into the opposition with a view to truncate the Change mantra right from inception of the new government. They orchestrated a face-off with the Executive in the THIRD QUARTER of 2016 when they rejected the list of about 48 non-career ambassadorial nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari; rejected the Executive Mid-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), document which Ali Ndume, as the then Senate Leader described as an "EMPTY DOCUMENT"; rejected US$ 29.9 foreign loan request by Mr. President meant to cushion the biting effects of the economic recession; refused to confirm Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the substantive Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Chairman; accused Secretary to Federal Government, (SGF), of misappropriating Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), funds and demanded for his immediate removal from office!" etc, etc.

ALI NDUME COULD BE A "DOG IN THE MANGER AGAIN"!
Ali served his punishment and returned to the Red Chambers, and luckily for him, he was re-elected for another four-year tenure and is very ambitious to become the new Senate President, come June 2019, is spite of his Party's preference for Senator Ahmed Lawan, whose candidature, the outward-bound Saraki subversively overthrew with the covert support of the opposition PDP Caucus in 2015! It should be recalled that in the 2015 Senate legislative insurrection in which Senator Ali Ndume, actively participated, he did not contend the presidency with Saraki, BUT, vigorously contested the deputy position with Senator Ike Ekeremadu, who was the consensus compensation for PDP's connivance!

OSHIOMOLE IS ANOTHER MAN TO WATCH!
Comrade Adams Oshiomole, Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, has been very undiplomatic in his administration since his assumption of office! Sitting Governors of, Ogun, Oyo, Imo, accused him of imposition of candidates during party primaries that produced factionalized candidates from the same party, and demanded for his removal without success! Now that APC has won the elections with comfortable majority in the National Assembly (NASS), he has begun a campaign of "winner takes all" and the imposition of principal officers on both chambers; and if not quickly checked, would likely play into the hand of Ali Ndume, who could become an insurgent and replay a coup drama with the opposition, like he did with Saraki in 2015!
The General Elections have come and almost gone but APC's numerical advantage had been greatly compromised through acts of commission or omission, by the party's hierarchy, with Oshiomole as the arrow head!
Before the 2019 General Elections, APC was in control of 23 States and boasted of majority figures in the two NASS Chambers, in spite of the gale of defections which defied all constitutional provisions! But as at the dust settled over the outcome of elections, it was very glaring that the ruling party had suffered several defeats at the States and the National Assembly, although statistics at the time of this publication stated as follows: States controlled by APC - 19, PDP, 15; Legislative Seats: APC - Senate, 65; House of Representatives (HOR), 203; PDP, Senate, 41; HOR;102 and the ripple effects of faulty diplomacy would definitely manifest at State Assemblies when a new Change Administration reconvenes in continuity from 29th May, 2019, and from early June, 2019, respectively!
EVEN, APC's controlled States of Oyo, Imo, Bauchi, have now been won by the opposition PDP, due to defective diplomacy by the leadership because it is believed that Adams Oshiomole did not work in isolation from the party's National Executive Council (NEC)!

PMB MUST NOT STAND ALOOF THIS TIME AROUND!
Unlike his 2015 inauguration speech of; "I am for nobody but I am for everybody," which was twisted by the ilk of the Sarakis, who took advantage to manipulate the system in their inordinate favour, this time around, President Buhari, MUST have his feet on the ground to ensure a well-co-ordinated and smooth synergy between the two arms, in other to avoid the unpleasant pitfalls of the past FOUR years which almost truncated the nation's nascent democracy!
A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!

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