Honourable thing to do is to resign - Oshiomole tells Saraki

After the Senate President, Bukola Sarakis' defection to the opposition party, the Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomole have asked him to resign in a meeting with some APC senators led by Senate leader, Ahmed Lawan.

He said;

"You should not collect a crown that belongs to a family and wear it on behalf of the family, It is just a matter of honour to leave the crown in the house that it belongs to. As it stands, even now, APC is still the largest party in the Senate, we have 53 senators, that is much more than PDP has ,or APGA has."

He continued;

"These are what I might call tempting moments, because I had faced similar situations in my state, when people were also leaving. But, the beauty of democracy is that whether big or small, it is one man one vote on election day, no difference between a senator, a president, a journalist and any other person. In a sense, we have to accept that once a couple, for any other reason or the other find that they are not compatible, the only honourable thing is to go. Meanwhile, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said the ruling APC government, since inception, has not shown love to his native Kwara State.

“He claimed that the state was marginalised in terms of appointments by the APC, during a chat with journalists in Ilorin.

“The Federal Government appointed over 200 persons into juicy offices without allotting any slot to me or (Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu) Dogara. Everything went to Katsina and Lagos. If not for the love I have for Nigeria, we would have scattered everything. They don’t want us in their party. They don’t like us in Kwara.

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