Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said that
only by enthroning justice and equity that the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) will be able to silence voices of dissent and opposition.
He spoke Thursday, at a meeting between APC members of the House and
members of the newly elected national working committee of the party led
by the chairman Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole at the National Assembly.
The Speaker noted that although there is no human endeavor that is perfect
but said APC lawmakers only expect justice which is indivisible and
universal.
“In every family whether it is a nuclear, extended or an organisation
there is bound to be problem and that is because we human that are running
those institutions are not perfect ourselves. So we don’t expect
perfection in from any quarters.”
“Our only expectation is the issue of justice and justice is indivisible.
What is justice to the executive should be justice to the legislature and
it should be justice to the judiciary.”
“What is justice to the President and the Vice President should be justice
to the Governor and it has to be justice for the members of the National
Assembly, because you can’t divide justice. Once you begin to divide
justice you don’t have justice.”
“And once we are able to get these things in their proper perspectives to
some extent we will be able to silence the voices of dissent within the
party but we have problems is perfectly okay but we mustn’t allow our
problems to define us rather we should define our problems as a party.”
Hon Dogara expressed optimism about the ability and capacity of the new
APC chairman Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to tackle the challenges confronting
the party saying “I know that you come well prepared we can only wish you
well and pray for God’s additional wisdom because human wisdom won’t be
enough as you navigate very treacherous terrain we pray God wisdom for
you.”
For his part, Comrade Oshiomhole told the MPs that “every person matters
in our Party because all party members voluntarily moved from various
political platforms, and dissolved those platforms in order to give birth
to the All Progressive Congress.”
He said that the idea of delivering the greater good for the greater
number of Nigerian citizens is what binds the APC together and “defines
us in spite of the teething problems we were bound to experience that
every new organisation goes through.”