Thread by @OfficialPDPNig

Onochie: Don’t Test the Will Of Nigerians, PDP Cautions Lawan, Gaya

The @OfficialPDPNig has cautioned the @SPNigeria , Senator Ahmed Lawan, not to test the will of the people in his desperation to push through, the confirmation of President @MBuhari’s aide,…

…@Laurestar, as a national commissioner in the @inecnigeria against the wishes of the people and the dictate of the 1999 Constitution  (as amended).

The @OfficialPDPNig said Senator Lawan is directly testing the will of the people by his failure to return @Laurestar’s nomination to President @MBuhari as demanded by Nigerians.

Our party cautions that the @SPNigeria is pitching the institution of the Senate against the generality of Nigerians, adding that the consequence of such arrogant derision to the definite provision of the 1999 Constitution as well as the precise demands by Nigerians to…

…return @Laurestar’s nomination to Mr. President, could cost the institution its respect with the people.

Our party is appalled  that Senator Lawan, who swore to protect the constitution, will brazenly debase its clear provision in paragraph 14 of the 3rd schedule by sending a card-carrying member of a political party for clearance as @inecnigeria national commissioner.

Sending @Laurestar’s nomination to the Senate Committee on @inecnigeria for clearance is completely offensive to all parliamentary procedure of due process as it is akin to sending the name of President @MBuhari to the committee for clearance as INEC Chairman or national officer

If he meant well, Senator Lawan ought to, upon receiving the obnoxious nomination, immediately returned same to President @MBuhari and advise him to send a replacement.

Senator Lawan must know that he is holding the office of the @SPNigeria in trust and that the constitution has ample and unambiguous provisions with regard to a legislative official, who chooses to grossly violates its provisions, as being witnessed in…

…his desperation to confirm @Laurestar as @inecnigeria official.

In the same vein, our party, in solidarity with Nigerians, urges the Chairman of @NGRSenate Committee on @inecnigeria, Senator Kabiru Gaya, to detach and distance himself from Senator Lawan, in his mission to desecrate the sanctity of our electoral system.

@OfficialPDPNig counsels Gaya not to heed to Lawan’s push urging him to move against the demand by Nigerians that @Laurestar’s consideration be turned down.