Election timetable: NASS members’ll be biggest losers – Bello
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Election timetable: NASS members’ll be biggest losers – Bello
By Abdullahi M. Gulloma
Abuja
The Kogi state Governor, Mr. Yahaya Bello, yesterday, said that National Assembly (NASS) members would be the biggest losers of the rearrangement of the order of the 2019 elections in the Electoral Act by the Assembly.
The lawmakers had proposed the amendment of the sequence of elections in the Electoral Act and placed the presidential election as the last to be conducted.
Speaking to State House correspondents after Friday prayer, Bello said the ‘Buharisunami’ that happened in 2015 which made it possible for majority of the lawmakers to win election, would not be applicable next year.
“I so much appreciate this. I think if you observe critically what happened in the last election where Mr. President was elected along with other members of National Assembly. Then we called it Buhari Sunami, where the good, the bad and the ugly were all put together and elected.
“It is either going to be in their interest that the Buhari Sunami will return them or everybody will be on his or her own. Let Buhari return and let Nigerians select the good ones out of the bad ones to return to the National Assembly.
Whichever order it comes, these upcoming general elections, I can assure you that Mr. President will win landslide and the good ones will return to the National Assembly.
“They have the choice to make and they have made their choice that the good will of Mr. President should not rob off on the bad ones. Surely, the good ones on their own account will return to the National Assembly at the appropriate time,” he said.
Reacting to the appointment of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, to reconcile aggrieved party members, Bello said it was a right step in the right direction.
“Of course, whatever Mr. President believes in, his judgement and his wisdom, I believe in him. And I believe in his ability to bring all party members together,” he said.
On the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) submission that Nigerians are angry with the present administration, the governor said: “Yes, is very true that Nigerians are angry but the question is who are these category of Nigerians who are angry? The category of Nigerians that are angry are those who used private jets to cart away Nigeria’s money in dollars out of the country to South Africa’’.
