The fifty-nine senators on
the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have resolved their
differences according to report.
Tension had reached an
all-time high within the party when senator Bukola Saraki boycotted a supposed
meeting with president Muhammadu Buhari to connive with some of his supporters
and those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to emerge as the senate
president unopposed.
The outcome of this action
was a friction among the big wigs of the party as national leader, Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, vowed never to accept Saraki as the senate president.
But according to This Day,
the leadership of the party spent the whole of Monday trying to resolve the
indifferences and their efforts seem to have yielded positive fruits as the
senators are now willing to work with each other.
The outcome of the meeting
overseen by Chief John Oyegun, national chairman of the APC, was an agreement
on the sharing of the outstanding principal offices in the federal legislature
as the leadership of the feuding lawmakers in National Assembly took turns to
consult on how to resolve the impasse.
The low point of the
meeting, however, was that while peace was brokered among APC senators last
night, the lawmakers in the lower chamber refused to be pacified no matter how
hard the party executives tried.
This Day sources stated
that the meeting which had Oyegun, Saraki, senator Ahmed Lawan, and other APC
senators in attendance, recorded some progress, as both groups loyal to Saraki
and Lawan reportedly agreed with the party over the zoning of the remaining
principal offices in the Senate.
“I am not privy to the
details of the meeting, but I think the Senate President has resolved his
differences with the party. What was still in contention was not which zones
the positions should go to, but who will emerge from the zones to occupy the
posts,” a source close to the Senate President said.
The party source revealed
further that the announcement on all the outstanding leadership positions would
be disclosed on the floor of the senate after the north-east caucus decides on
who should represent their zone as senate leader.
Senators Lawan and Ali
Ndume are the two candidates in contention for that post.
Recall that supporters
loyal to senator Lawan have vowed to present conditions before president Buhari
when both parties meet the president to end the discord within the party.
For how long before another fight ensued
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