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       Saraki Senate President hails Oshiomhole, Osinbajo after dumping
        APC
       By: sparrow Date: August 1, 2018, 5:20 am
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       Senate President Bukola Saraki has hailed the efforts of the All
       Progressives Congress (APC) chairman, Adams Oshiomhole and the
       Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo for making efforts to broker peace
       in the party.
       Saraki said this in a statement which he issued to newsmen
       immediately after he announced his resignation from the ruling
       party.
       The Senate President said “The emergence of a new national party
       executives a few weeks ago held out some hopes, however slender.
       The new party chairman has swung into action and did his best
       alongside some of the Governors of APC and His Excellency, the
       Vice President.
       “I thank them for all their great efforts to save the day and
       achieve reconciliation. Even though I thought these efforts were
       coming late in the day, but seeing the genuine commitment of
       these gentlemen, I began to think that perhaps it was still
       possible to reconsider the situation.
       “However, as I have realized all along, there are some others in
       the party leadership hierarchy, who did not think dialogue was
       the way forward and therefore chose to play the fifth
       columnists.
       “These individuals went to work and ensured that they scuttled
       the great efforts and the good intentions of these
       aforementioned leaders of the party. Perhaps, had these divisive
       forces not thrown the cogs in the wheel at the last minutes, and
       in a manner that made it impossible to sustain any trust in the
       process, the story today would have been different.”
       Corruption war turned to weapon
       According to Saraki, President Buhari’s anti-corruption war has
       become a weapon to silence the opposition.
       whereby every dissent from the legislature was framed as an
       affront on the executive or as part of an agenda to undermine
       the government itself.
       "The populist notion of anti-corruption became a ready weapon
       for silencing any form of dissent and for framing even
       principled objection as ‘corruption fighting back’,” he added.
       The Senate President also revealed that he is leaving the APC to
       start a new political journey with the Peoples Democratic Party
       (PDP).
       Also, the Kwara state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has
       dumped the APC for the PDP.
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