APC eats humble pie, accepts Saraki

The ruling APC may have decided to get pass the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as the Senate president, and move on as a party

National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, noted this much on Friday when he said that the reality was that Saraki’s colleagues had duly elected him and the party was ready to live with the reality.

Odigie-Oyegun spoke with State House correspondents shortly after joining members of the transition committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to present their report to the President at the Defence House, Abuja.

Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, both of the APC, emerged as leaders of the National Assembly on Tuesday against the directives of the party which had earlier asked its members to vote for Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila.

When asked specifically whether the party would accept Saraki as the President of the Senate, Odigie-Oyegun said, “Of course! He has been duly elected by his colleagues. We have a reality and we must live with it.”

He also said party chiefs were already talking with Saraki and would not want to make noise about it.

On the crisis that erupted in the party after the elections in the National Assembly, Odigie-Oyegun said the APC had faced greater challenges before and the latest one too would pass away.

The party chairman said what happened was within the APC family and they were sorting it out within the family.

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