Pro-Buhari senators seek juicy offers for aggrieved lawmakers

The All Progressives Congress caucus in the Senate has started pleading with their colleagues who failed to get tickets to contest the 2019 senatorial election not to dump the ruling party.

Some members of the caucus told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday that the APC leadership might withdraw names of candidates already submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission and replace them with those of the aggrieved sitting senators in order to pacify them.

It was also learnt that the lucky APC senators were currently seeking audience with President Muhammadu Buhari with a view to asking him to reward the loyalty of some of their colleagues who couldn’t get return tickets by considering them for appointments in 2019.

The Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, and several other APC senators, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH, allayed the fears of their colleagues who are considering defection.

They pleaded with them to wait for the INEC’s final list.

The PUNCH, October 28, 2018

 

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