Kaduna senator slams elders forum over threat to recall him from NASS

The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Lawal Adamu Usman, has lampooned a group, known as Kaduna Elders Forum (KEF) over threats to recall him from the National Assembly for alleged non-performance.

He told the elders that he was not disturbed by their demand, just as he explained, “I am only interested in pursuing my legislative activities before me in the National Assembly.”

Senator Usman, popularly called Senator LA by his supporters, criticized the KEF for threatening him with another recall threat a few months after it first did while hiding under another group.
The lawmaker in a statement dismissed the outbursts of the KEF as the ranting of a group of “meddlesome interlopers” that should not be taken seriously.

Usman stressed that as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) and Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Financial Matters, both of which are of crucial national importance, he has no time for any disputatious argument with frivolous individuals working to achieve the selfish interests of some unserious politicians hiding behind a finger to fight political battles with him.

According to him, “this was not the first time the group and its sponsors would be exhibiting such childish tantrums on issues they should have sought to be informed and educated about, rather than embarking on their ignominious mission of deliberately misinforming the public and telling blatant lies about his unprecedented achievements in the past 18 months, which he said were real and concrete enough for everyone to see and assess.”

He then wondered what became of the group’s earlier recall threat with a 14-day ultimatum made to him last year under the cover of the Kaduna Peace and Tranquility Forum (KPTF), saying the rehash of the same threat by the same set of individuals under a new name (KEF) was laughable and curious.

Usman urged the people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District not to allow themselves to be deceived by the lies being peddled against him by the “so-called Kaduna elders”, as they “lacked the morality to continue to pretend to love the ordinary people of the constituency, whereas they had been engaged in their nefarious activities in the interest of their sponsors and paymasters.”

The lawmaker urged his constituents to remain calm in the face of the needless provocative statements by the KEF, “while also disregarding the group’s recall threat by handling it with the disdain it deserved.”

He added that for a lawmaker within 18 months in office to have recorded his achievements which he said were far and above what his predecessors could not achieve, was no mean feat.