The power tussle continued in National Assembly on Tuesday with leaders of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) speechless about the events that unfolded.
As they left the International
Conference Centre in Abuja
where they were supposed to have a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, they
could not comment on what has happened at the National Assembly.
It seems that the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) not only robbed the APC of the top positions at the
Senate but also the power of speech.
Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu was not even able to make comments over Bukola Saraki winning the post of the President of the Senate.
“I have no comment, I have no
reaction,” said the national leader of the APC while leaving the International
Conference Centre, Abuja, where the APC leaders were waiting in vain for Buhari.
John Odigie-Oyegun, the APC
National Chairman, added: “We just watched it (on TV) but we will address you
when the whole situation has been re-examined.”
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was
reportedly absent at the meeting scheduled to renew peace among the groups in
the leadership struggle of the 8th National Assembly.
The legislators-elect of the APC
and some leaders of the party had come together only to get to know that
elections were going on at the National Assembly and that Saraki had become the
new Senate President.
Meanwhile, PDP senators were
reportedly patting each other on the back at the National Assembly, celebrating
Saraki’s emergence as the Senate President.
One of the PDP’s senators,
representing Anambra
State, who declined to be
identified, told the press that, given the fact that Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu
have just managed to get the top positions at the Senate, the PDP has a strong
chance for political resurrection.
Besides that, Yakubu Dogara has
just been chosen as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is a huge
blow to the APC, but most especially to Tinubu, who backed Femi Gbajabiamila
for the post.
Source: Dailyindependent
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