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More crisis brews in APC over NASS leadership
The crisis in the ruling APC is spreading by the day as more opposition seems to trail the mode which the party’s leadership wants to adopt to pick candidates to fill the leadership positions in the two chambers of the National Assembly.
This is even as various factions have sprung up in both chambers of the federal legislature in support of their favoured candidate for the variuos positions, also pitching them against each other.
At the Senate level, senators under the aegis of “Senators of Like Minds” supporting Bukola Saraki for the Senate Presidency on Friday challenged the Unity Forum senators supporting Ahmed Lawan to publish the list of his supporters as Saraki had done.
The “Senators of Like Minds” warned that any imposition of leadership in the Senate would lead to ‘Banana Peel’, an euphemism for impeachment and crisis in the senate.
Also, at the House of Reps. level, Minority Leader of the 7th House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila emerged the APC candidate for the House’s speakership at a mock primaries conducted by the leadership of the party in Abuja on Saturday, polling154 votes out of 180.
But this development happened amidst heavy protest by Gbajabiamila’s rival, Hon. Yakubu Dogara who staged a walk out from the premises with his supporters after he was announced to have polled 3 votes.
They complained that the senerio was more like an ambush as the party did not tell the candidates or advertised that they were going to conduct the primaries.
The party has been finding it difficult to pick consensus candidates at the Senate and House of Representatives levels. Series of meetings held to resolve the impasse have so far failed.
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