A pro-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform named PDP Action 2023 has said any attempt to foist a leadership on the minority parties in the senate would result in destabilising the red chamber.
It likened the move to impose a minority leadership in the chamber to a plot to complete dictatorship in Nigeria.
The group which accused the majority party in the senate, the All Progressives Congress (APC) of instigating the move alongside collaborators, however cautioned the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, not to allow them dabble into the minority leadership race.
Chairman of the pro-PDP group, Hon. Rufus Omeire, in a statement, also decried the attacks against former Sokoto State governor, Sen Aminu Tambuwal, who is aspiring to be minority leader in the senate.
Omeire said; “Why are some elements in the majority party and their collaborators desperate to control the leadership of the minority parties in the senate?
“We counsel the newly elected president of the senate not to allow people to destabilise the senate by dabbling into the minority leadership issue of the 10th senate but to concentrate instead in assisting Mr President deliver sound legislation and good policies to ensure good governance in Nigeria at this critical period of change and renewal.”
He added that those attacking Tambuwal were worried that he may become a stumbling block to the alleged plot for complete dictatorship in Nigeria.
Omiere added, “Since the issue of Minority leadership of the 10th Senate became topical, the media has been awash with contrived, manufactured, sponsored, desperate, irresponsible, and generally distasteful stories planted by people with inordinate ambition to stifle the voices of opposition and future accountability in the 10th senate.
“They have zeroed in on Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as their problem.
“They have levelled all sorts of spurious and unfounded allegations on him. They allege that he had once betrayed some people and PDP. Behind these allegations is an attempt to re-litigate the 2022 PDP presidential primary.
“They have consistently tried to pin on him the issue of betrayal of some of his friends because of the patriotic role he played during the PDP national convention. We cannot hold brief for Tambuwal, but at the appropriate time, the relevant question would be asked: Who betrayed who?”
