By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
The ambitions of Senator Binta Masi Garba and Senator Abdul’aziz Nyako are seen as efforts to destroy the chances of others in the Adamawa State All Progressives Congress (APC), family.
A concerned party man and staunch agitator of the movement to reclaim Adamawa State back to APC from PDP, Hasruna Adamu Isa said Binta and Nyako who have respectively represented the Northern and Central Senatorial zones are embracing the path that will further kill the party in the state.
Hasruna said that owing to the fact that both Binta and Nyako were former lawmakers and recently received appointments from President Muhammadu Buhari as Board Chairman of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) and member Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) respectively.
The party loyalist expressed worries that the decision of the former national lawmakers to nurse ambition of going back to the Senate chambers as senators of their respective zones will waste the appointments they have all accepted.
He stressed that the two senators are about to waste the federal appointments over their ambitions that may not give them light at the end of the tunnel.
He however, advised them to either reject the appointments in order to get qualified people to replace them.
“Let them tell us that they reject the appointments over their Senatorial ambition that it may not give them light at the end of the tunnel.
” They are just trying to waste those lucrative offices for the APC family in Adamawa State, which I’m kicking against it as a loyal member of the party.” Hasruna said.
Adamu said they are trying to trick the APC in Adamawa by being silent over the appointments and going on with their Senatorial aspirations and that contravenes section 84 sub section 12 of the electoral act.
He opined that the act states that no political appointee should enter into primaries without resigning.
“For them to keep quiet is a political fraud and yahoo yahoo way of sabotaging the general interest of all party members in Adamawa State.
” The best way to go about it they should publicly announce through the media that they do not accept the appointments, so substantial replacement should be made.” Isa added.
Isa warned that they are giving them two days ultimatum, whether on or before Friday to resign, or they will be left with no option than to write a letter to the Ministry of Transport and Secretary to the Government of the Federation to quickly get Adamawa indigenes to replace them.
“Their appointment is with immediate effect, they should reject it if truly they are going into primaries so that we can even thank them for that.
” But it appears they are trying to trick APC members by being silent and keeping that appointment by the side, this is their plans in case they don’t win the primaries.
“They however, forget the oath they took in their Senatorial forms by way of signing is in total disagreement with their new appointments as political aspirants.” He added.
