Gang-Up Against Tambuwal Is APC’s Plot To Undermine Opposition – Group

The Generation Next Collective (GNC), a coalition of pragmatic youth and women groups has alleged a plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to undermine the country’s democracy through its ongoing scheme to stop the emergence of Aminu Tambuwal as Senate Minority Leader.

The group in a statement issued by its co – conveners, Barrister Ruth Edehemon and Malam Rufai Abdulahi, PhD, in Abuja, on Sunday, July 2, 2023 alleged a coordinate plot to rubbish Tambuwal as a way of sabotaging the enthronement of a virile opposition in the Senate.

Noting that the opposition in the House of Representatives has already been compromised, the group alleged that the plot to stop a truly independent opposition figure in the person of Tambuwal as Senate Minority leader would cripple opposition to the ruling APC.

The GNC said that that’s why it’s concerned about the coordinated attack on the character and person of Senator  Tambuwal, who it said ticks the objective leadership boxes, given his outstanding legislative and administrative leadership experience, capacity and capabilities.

“These same forces have already taken over the Minority Leadership of the House of Representatives, and have vowed to replicate their authoritarianism in the selection process in the senate.

Speaking on the current controversy surrounding the selection of the Senate Minority Leadership, the statement said further: “The institution of the Legislature in Nigeria has suffered bruises of negative public perception and mistrust in the immediate past administration, on account of how it handled some of its constitutional responsibilities, in a manner that made it appear like a rubberstamp to many.  

“An ideal Legislature requires an objective, conscientious and sensitive majority party leadership and also a robust, responsible and responsive minority leadership to nurture a healthy democracy that would ensure policy initiatives that’ll prioritise the interest of the people and equitable distribution of the commonwealth of the nation. 

“Senator Tambuwal, either in his past public office positions as a Speaker, eight years as Governor of Sokoto state, Chairman, People’s Democratic Party (PDP’s) Governors’ Forum, or Director-General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in the last general elections,  has been unblemished, humble and patriotic, 

“Tambuwal remains one of the best ambassadors of the PDP.  He is known to be a level-headed team player, who will rally the opposition parties to give a resounding voice of reason on behalf of the Nigerian people, for good governance and peace of the nation, devoid of rancour, pettiness or divisiveness. Such an individual imbued with this unique personality of calming candour, should be projected by all well-meaning party men and women, rather than dragged on the mud of internal party politics and rivalry. The ruling party and the external forces  sweating to stop Tambuwal should stop fretting about his emergence, but rather prepare to give the Nigerian people the kind of responsible leadership they deserve. “

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