Senate crisis: Buhari meets Lawan

President Muhammadu Buhari may have taken sides with his party, the APC, over the ongoing crisis in the Senate that emanated from the election of its leadership.

Buhari who on Friday night met with the Senate Unity Forum led by Senator Ahmad Lawan, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, insisted on party supremacy and supported steps taken so far by the leadership of the party on the National Assembly crisis.

The APC, had before the National Assembly leadership election, endorsed Lawan as its sole candidate for the senate presidency, but Senator Bukola Saraki defied the party to emerge as the senate president.

The party had also on Wednesday wrote the Senate President and submitted names of its candidates for the senate principal offices, but again, its candidates did not emerge.

A senator, who was among the team that met with Buhari in company with Lawan, Punch on conditions of anonymity, that the president assured them that he would always align with the party’s position on the issue of the National Assembly election.

The senator said, “Yes, we met with the president and it was a fruitful one, going forward. We had the assurances of Mr. President that he is fully behind the position of the APC leadership on the National Assembly election.

“We are currently on recess but I am sure that when we resume, Nigerians will begin to see the effect of the meeting. I won’t say more than that. “

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