Kaduna senator slams group over recall threat

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Lawal Adamu, on Wednesday, lashed out at a group, Kaduna Peace and Tranquility Forum, over a threat to mobilise for his recall from the National Assembly for alleged non-performance.

Fondly called “Senator LA” by his constituents and supporters in the Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Adamu also deplored the purported 14-day ultimatum issued to him by the group to account for his stewardship since his election.

The KPTF had, at a press briefing, accused the senator of non-performance and asked him to, within 14 days, account for his stewardship as the representative of the senatorial district at the National Assembly.

Reacting through a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Segun Olatunji, in Kaduna, on Wednesday, Adamu described the outbursts of the KPTF as “the ranting of a discomfited group of meddlesome interlopers seeking to misinform unsuspecting members of the public for the selfish political gains of their masterminds and sponsors.”

He urged the people of Kaduna Central senatorial district and the general public in Kaduna State not to be deceived by what he termed the gibberish being churned out by the KPTF.

He also stated that the threat by the group to mobilise for his recall from the National Assembly did not cut any ice with him, urging the good people of the district to remain calm, disregard the threat and treat the ranting with the disdain it deserved.

The lawmaker noted that it was needless to remind the group and their ilk that being the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) and Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Financial Matters was no child’s play.

He said such committees of national importance were not for the lazy and weak-minded politicians like the sponsors of their group.

“No one should be surprised by the outbursts of this group. They are not to be taken seriously as far as we’re concerned.

“When people wake up from the wrong side of their beds, they’re bound to be still groggy and not know when they talk bunkum and misfire,” the statement read.

It added that the threat by the KPTF “smacks of a dress rehearsal for a light-hearted comedy of errors show.”

It added, “For the avoidance of doubt, Senator LA believes in serious change rather than a hopeless gimmick. He believes in grip and not drift. Right from the run-up to the 2023 elections, he had rolled up his sleeves for the big task ahead and since his election into the National Assembly, he has continuously been doing the hard graft, working his fingers to the bones, so to say, all in the corporate interests of the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District.”

He listed some of his achievements in education, infrastructural development, economic empowerment and delivery of dividends of democracy to the senatorial districts and others.

“His comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District and even beyond is nonpareil and unprecedented,” the statement added.

The lawmaker said he had fulfilled his earlier promise to pay tuition of indigent students across the state, by giving the sum of between N100,000 and N150,000 to over 200 students in the Humanities and Sciences, respectively.

He said he earmarked N250m for settling the tuition of hundreds of students of tertiary institutions in his constituency.

The statement also listed the lawmaker’s effort in securing the release of Kuriga kidnap victims, including his efforts to interface with President Bola Tinubu on the matter.

It said the KPTF had left no one in doubt that it lacked the requisite mental capacity to assess Adamu’s performance in the National Assembly in the past year.

“The KPTF’s gibberish submission on the performance of the Distinguished Senator LA exposes its purveyors as people lacking the least cognitive capacity to make any assessment of the lawmaker being constantly applauded beyond the confines of his senatorial district.

“We know those beating the drums producing this incoherent and shameful rhythm being shamelessly danced to in the public by these meddlesome interlopers. Members of KPTF are hiding behind a veil, they shall soon be exposed and disgraced, Insha Allah,” the statement concluded.