The Lagos State House of Assembly has condemned strongly the confirmation of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro for Ministarial appointment in a very controversial circumstance over the credibility of the embattled former Senator and former Minister of State for Defence.
The spokesperson of the House and Chairman of the House Committee on Information and Security Hon Segun Olulade in a released issued shortly after the confirmation said
the Senate President, David Mark, in an attempt to show disgraceful loyalty to President Jonathan and his party the PDP has failed to thrive in glory and honour as President of the senior chamber of nation’s legislative arm of government.
The release is coming in the wake of today’s confirmation of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s nomination by the Senate for Ministerial post as nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The Epe Constituency II representative said in a bid to show undue and dishonourable loyalty, the Senate President has dragged his esteemed status in the mud by stage-managing a passage for the Ministerial nomination of Musiliu Obanikoro even when it is obvious that the nominee is battling with serious integrity issue laden with insecurity, rigging and fraudulent actS.
In Olulade’s words, “the crime committed by David Mark in that unholy and damaging confirmation is more than tearing of the national flag”.
“It is less criminal to take Nigerian flag to the public and tear it off than a Senate President confirming a criminal to serve as Senator especially when such person is being designated to take security portfolio like Minister of State for Defence with the plan to return him to do more serious damages against the nation during the forth-coming general election by supervising rigging using the Army ‘, Olulade said.
Quoting Olulade further, “I am sure neither the American Senate President nor head of the British Parliament could take such awful and criminal decision against the ethics of their respected offices and against the nation’s overall interest”.
Olulade said confirmation of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro under the present circumstance is no less than threatening the nation’s security, murdering justice and setting agenda for President Jonathan and the PDP to use devil advocate for their obnoxious interest.
The lawmaker also seizes same medium to remind Senator David Mark that the Senate has in the past refused confirmation of non-credible nominees with lesser controversial records than Obanikoro. He wondered why President Jonathan’s administration is constantly in the short supply of credible personalities that can serve in his government, stating that as same reason why the nation is rejecting his second term bid as his habitual romance with Nigerians who lack integrity and corrupt as the only people that can work with him.
“I want to sincerely commend the APC lawmakers in the upper Chamber for their doggedness and steadfast against injustice by refusing to endorse Senate’s confirmation of Obanikoro as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under present circumstance. I believe history will reckon with their patriotic efforts in the future while same history will continue to trail the PDP legislators who are submerging nation’s larger interest for their party’s terrific agenda”, he concluded.
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