Some members of the All Progressives Congress APC under the ageis of APC Youths stakeholders on Thursday berated the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan on his recent appointments.
Addressing a press conference, the group who spoke through Mr Ayobami Oyalowo said the appointments were done in due disregard for party loyalty as those appointed as aides of Senator Lawan are traducers who have at one time or the other shown total hatred and disobeyance to the party and President Muhammadu Buhari.
Here is the full statement:
*Press Conference by APC Stakeholders On Recent Appointments Announced By The Office of the Senate President*
Good day gentlemen of the press, and everybody here present.
We have gathered here this moment to address an issue that is of great concern to all the young people of our great party, the APC. It’s most likely that many of you have seen the heartbreaking and disappointing appointments announced by the office of the Senate President. While we acknowledge and concede that the choice of personal aides is the exclusive right of the political leaders concerned; we however find it unbearable that the names announced so far are those of known antagonists of the present government and acerbic critics of President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Ahmed Lawan himself.
No doubt, the appointments are glaring reward for people who have not only insulted the person of President Muhammadu Buhari but also severally maligned the integrity of the office he occupies. Even for supporting Senator Lawan to be Senate President, these new appointees did not spare the President. Now that Senator Lawan has achieved his ambition, it’s disheartening to see that the very people he puts forward as beneficiaries of his new position are those who condemned and vilified those who supported him to attain the position in the first place.
The appointments made by Senate President Lawan so far have made every rational youth of APC who championed the campaign for Ahmed Lawal Senate Presidency to question their choice. When the Senate President we all supported with our hearts and worked for wholeheartedly begins to compensate enemies of the government, those of the party and indeed those of the same President Buhari who endured insults for backing Senator Lawan for Senate President position; then the devil himself must be celebrated for doing a good job in turning a Senate President we brought in against us so soon and so fast.
We may never know all the reasons behind the inexplicable appointments made by Senate President Lawan. However, we do know that every minute since the announcement of those appointments, many frontline party leaders and a large number of young people in the party have kept asking if Senator Ali Ndume was right afterall for insisting that he was better than Senator Lawan as Senate President. No doubt, the actions of Senate President Lawan, especially regarding the appointments he has made so far, bear the telltale sign of a betrayal.
Over the last few hours, a discussion has reemerged among young people in the party on what we can do to end the tradition of “monkey dey work, baboon dey chop” which the Senate President seems to prefer. And it’s encouraging that the youth of the party have rose up to the challenge by quickly raising the red flags to indicate that the few choices made by Senator Lawan so far as Senate President are everything but popular. Already, there is an ongoing social media campaign aimed at drawing the attention of Senator Lawan to the unpopular choices he made with his appointments and how that may truncate his otherwise promising tenure as President of the ninth Senate.
Therefore, considering the uproar generated by these appointments and the tendency to dampen the morale of members of our party, both young and old, who have worked tirelessly pre and post elections, with majority working as champions and promoters of the choices of the party for the recently concluded National Assembly leadership elections which saw to the emergence of Senator Lawan as Senate President, it’s imperative that the very discouraging appointments made so far are reviewed and amendments effected as a matter of necessity and urgency.
In view of the above, we youth of the party, hereby requests the Senate President to kindly immediately these appointments and make adjustments that would further endear him to the multitude of young party faithful who see promise in his leadership.
It is our belief that the Senate President would not betray the huge faith we all have in his strong will to take unifying actions that would strengthen the APC as a progressive platform capable of sustaining the progress of our country.
Thank you all for your attention.
Signed;
Ayobami Oyalowo
