Kwara APC slams attacks NWC member over comments on Saraki

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Kwara State chapter, has warned the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, to stop making uninformed comments on the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
The party, which reacted to Nabena’s yesterday comments demanding Saraki to come clean on his relationship with the Reformed All Progressives Congress (rAPC), a splinter group from the ruling APC, comprising mostly of aggrieved members of the nPDP and CPC and others.
The state chapter, therefore, cautioned the APC National Working Committee (NWC) member, Nabena, to restrict himself to the mandate of his new position instead of making unsavoury comments against the Senate President.
It would be recalled that Nabena had in a comment asked the Senate President to declare his stand on the rAPC, thus alluding that Saraki, whose is alleged to have sympathy for the splinter, may be mole in the APC.
According to the party’s spokesperson, Sulyman Buhari, Nabena should first clarify if he was speaking on behalf of APC’s NWC or he was “running errand” for some “faceless and mischievous elements who are his paymasters.”
“The Kwara APC has taken note of the immature display and lack of decorum by one Yekinni Nabena in a statement he issued today calling the Senate President names.
“Nabena needs to first clarify if he was speaking on behalf of the National Working Committee of the APC or representing some faceless and mischievous elements who are his paymasters.
“Instead of embarrassing himself with his meaningless diatribe that demonstrates his lack of decorum and immaturity for the position he has accidentally found himself, Nabena should focus on understanding what his current position entails.
“This is necessary because his preparedness and capacity have definitely been called into question by his antics. He definitely cannot use Saraki’s name to get cheap popularity and buy relevance.
“At the right time, our leader, the Senate President, who remains one of the founding fathers of the APC and a deciding factor in our national politics today, will make his decision known to the whole world when he is ready”, Buhari said.
It also urged Nigerians not to be distracted by individuals who are fond of making statements to seek relevance or for personal gain.
The party described Nabena as an “unknown factor” whom Saraki does not owe any explanation noting that at the right time Saraki would make his position clear on 2019.
“Instead, at the right time, I am sure that his friends, supporters, associates, all Nigerians and the entire world will know where he stands on issues regarding 2019 elections.
“Saraki that we know does not hide to play his politics. He plays in the open. Those who feel uncomfortable with his rising profile will continue to bell-ache for a long time to come. In fact, we enjoy the way he is making his opponents fret and suffer insomnia by his silence”, he said.