Adeyeye Hails Senate's Confirmation Of Service Chiefs, Cautions APC Reps On 2014 Budget

Former Spokesperson of Afenifere and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Prince Dayo Adeyeye has described the screening and confirmation of the appointments of new Service Chiefs by the Senate despite the directive by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to its members in the National Assembly to stall the process as a sign that Nigerians will always rise above selfish partisan interests and act like patriots on collective interests of the country and its people.

Adeyeye, who commended the Senate and the APC senators from Ekiti State who took part in the screening of the Service Chiefs as against the directive of their party, said; "By ignoring the APC's evil directive that the screening and confirmation should be stalled, the lawmakers deserve to be commended."

In a release issued today, and made available to journalists, Adeyeye called on APC members in the House of Representatives to emulate their colleagues in the Senate by always rising above partisan consideration in the performance of their duties.

He said the APC Reps members threat to block the passage of the 2014 Budget was no doubt a declaration of war on Nigeria and its people.

The governorship aspirant urged the APC lawmakers to also ignore the party by accelerating the consideration and passage of the 2014 budget.

He said the lawmakers should always act in the overall interest of Nigerians instead of pursuing their party's devilish plot to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Goodluck Jonathan in furtherance of its desperate bid to take-over of power in 2015.

Adeyeye said; "What should always be our paramount concern as Nigerians irrespective of our partisan interests is the collective interest of Nigeria and its people not the pursuit of blinded ambition for power.

"If the APC members in the House of Representatives truly love Nigerians, what they ought to be talking about should be the correction of whatever they feel was wrong with the Budget, not threatening to frustrate its passage.

"Or isn't it more reasonable for them to correct whatever anomalies that they have noticed in the 2014 Budget proposal instead of threatening to block its passage? Don't they as legislators have rights to make inputs into the budget before they pass it?

"Now that the APC senators have taken part in the screening and confirmation of the appointments of the Service Chiefs, it is believed that the APC caucus in the House of Representatives will also take a clue from this and act in the interest of Nigerians concerning the 2014 budget."