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Sahara Reporters is reporting the new development ..
A truce meeting called on Monday by the leadership of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) has been boycotted by Senator Bukola Saraki,
one of the party’s top contenders for the presidency of the Senate.
Senator Saraki boycotted the meeting after reportedly telling party
leaders that as a former governor he could not attend a meeting summoned
by a ‘mere commissioner’, referring to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, whose
previous public office was as Commissioner of Justice in Lagos State.
Saraki then became a Senator, while Osinbajo is now the Vice President.
Following Saraki’s snub, Prof. Osinbajo didn’t bother
to attend the meeting, but the party met with its elected lawmakers,
with some of Saraki’s earlier supporters joining the meeting.
Sources at the meeting told SaharaReporters that the leaders of the
National Working Committee of the APC reaffirmed their support for
candidates chosen during Saturday’s mock primaries of the party.
The Senate and the House of Representatives are expected to be
inaugurated tomorrow. President Muhammad Buhari has given his blessing
and dispatched a letter to the Clerk of the National Assembly asking to
declare the two chambers inaugurated. Buhari is expected to return to
Abuja on Tuesday evening, according presidency sources.
APC is expected to hold a final meeting tonight to prepare for the
elections of its principal officers of the National Assembly tomorrow.
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