Bukola Saraki: Don’t witch hunt N/Assembly Clerk, PDP warns APC...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) against any attempt to intimidate or harass the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa and the National Assembly Service Commission for performing their statutory functions during the inauguration of the National Assembly when Bukola Saraki emerged the Senate President and Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Thursday said any attempt by the APC to transfer their frustration, which was a product of their ineptitude, would amount to witch-hunt and victimization.   The party said the undertone of the statement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu that the Clerk was adequately requested to shift the time for the inauguration to enable the President address the APC legislators but he ignored it “amounts to putting undue pressure on civil servants in the National Assembly for performing their legitimate duties and sends a serious signal which should not be ignored.”   It described as unfortunate the fact that the APC’s displayed its arrogance and disrespect for the dictates of the constitution by attempting to adjust the President’s promulgation order on the National Assembly and seeking to put their interest over and above the supreme law of the land.   “It is a clear mark of disrespect to the constitution for the President and his party to fix a meeting for him to address their legislators the same time he had directed the Assembly to be inaugurated in line with the constitution. For 16 years that PDP nurtured democracy in this country, there was never a day it attempted to arm-twist or intimidate the bureaucracy of the National Assembly to do its bidding given our recognition and respect for the independence and sanctity of the legislative arm. Read more on vanguard.