Senator Adamu claims Saraki, some riff-raff behind R-APC

Abdullahi Adamu, the Senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial
District, has alleged that Senate President Bukola Saraki, is the
brain behind the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC).

Adamu, speaking with reporters at the APC headquarters in Abuja,
described the breakaway faction of the ruling party, as a 419 group.

He said no member of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP)
benefitted from the faction like Saraki.

"He (Saraki) has benefited more than any single new PDP person and he
seems to be the arrow head of this resistance of betrayal," he said.

"I told you that the nPDP is fake. I told you these are the people who
have got felony that they are hiding from and that want to use their
positions in the party and national assembly as a veil to hide from
the felonies they have committed.

"And the whole thing they are fighting for is not for service to
Nigeria but service to their interests. I did tell you that they are
staying in APC to cause more maximum possible damage. I made that
clear here. I have been proven right. I told you about the noise that
they are talking about that they wanted to stay and work with the
family of APC but they are just trying to create the type of
impression that they had a raw deal."

Asked if the splinter group constitute any threat to the party in
2019, he said: "The issue of threat doesn't arise. I don't feel it in
my body. I have been in politics, if I am modest, may at least be
forty years. I have contested elections and never lost.

"I have operated at the local government level; I have operated at
national assembly level; I have been governor in this country; I have
been secretary of the board of trustees of PDP and I am a second term
senator today. I have seen enough in Nigeria's politics far and from
what I have seen the indicators are we are dealing with 419ners, I
call them 419ners; I don't hide it.

"How many of them can go to their constituency? I don't call them
Abuja politicians because they don't deserve that accolade. These are
just 419. These are guys who go from place to place. The truth is that
if Saraki and the rest of them genuinely feel aggrieved and want to
go, out let them go out there.

"Three weeks after the convention, we are hearing that some riff-raff
have formed something called R-APC."