By News Desk
A senator representing Sokoto South Senatorial District, Sen. Aminu Tambuwal’s nomination as Senate Minority Leader in the upper chamber of the 10th National Assembly has been rejected.
The People’s Democratic Party faction, Concerned PDP League (CPDPL) made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday by its Chairman, Daboikiabo Warmate.
According to the group, the organisation was opposed to Tambuwal because of his conduct as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, adding that they suggested that the position be assigned to Plateau State in the North-Central region rather than Tambuwal.
Speaking further, Warmate said that Tambuwal had joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) while serving as Speaker of the 8th House of Representatives, which position was provided to him by the PDP.
He said, “That his ambition is dead in its imagination, how much more arrival; nevertheless, the past has caught up with him.”
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“It is with great disappointment and shock to have read in the papers that Tambuwal, the former Governor of Sokoto State and PDP Governors Forum Chairman, wants to be the minority leader of the 10th Senate.
“Somebody who in 2014, took the House of Representatives Speakership we gave to him and defected to another party. This same person eventually came back to the party.
“Now, he wants to be the minority leader of the 10th Senate; we will not give support to you.
“Look, for many years, he was the PDP Governors Forum chairman, but could not speak against the suppression and sufferings of Nigerians,” Warmate said.
According to him, Tambuwal cannot be trusted the second time and does not have the courage to be the Minority Leader of the 10th Senate, judging from his antecedents.
In order to provide room for new ideas, he asked for a midterm convention to be followed by the party’s National Working Committee being dissolved.
The group additionally encouraged Amb. Umar Damagum, the party’s Acting National Chairman, not to sign any letters designating Tambuwal as the minority leader of the 10th Senate.
“The former PDP Governors Forum Chairman performed woefully as a leader of the opposition party.
“No, enough is enough; PDP members cannot be used and dumped.
“It is Peoples Democratic Party, not Elite Democratic Party or Stakeholders Democratic Party, and that is what we want them to know.
“We will not allow members, leaders, or any leader to use the party and dump it at will, no! That is unacceptable. We need to tell them the truth.”
Warmate praised Nyesom Wike, Former Governor of Rivers State, for giving the opposition the voice it needed during the eight years the APC-led federal government was in power.
