President Muhammadu Buhari and State governors under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have resolved to wade into the lingering leadership crisis rocking the National Assembly, particularly the Senate.
Accordingly, the APC governors at a meeting with the President in Aso Rock late Tuesday night agreed to call Senators to order and caution them to treating the decisions of the party with disdain.
At the meeting which started at about 11.00pm and ended in the early hours of Wednesday resolved that the federal lawmakers must be reoriented on the need to respect party supremacy on any matter.
Imo State Governor and chairman of the APC governors’ forum, Rochas Okorocha who spoke to journalists after the meeting noted that the governors raised concern about rancor in the National Assembly,me specially the red chamber.
Okorocha said their meeting with the President was more reassuring, as it became clear to them that there was light at the dark end of the tunnel.
He added that they commended the President on efforts he had taken so far in addressing the issue of the country’s economy which was already tottering towards an eclipse before Buhari hit the ground running.
The forum’s chairman said, “With all these achievements and progress we are making, we are worried by the pockets of disagreements going on at the National Assembly. We have resolved that we came from a party and our party’s views should be respected.
“So, we feel that there is the need for us to invite our senators and look more into the matter and see how we can all make peace. We believe that everyone should respect our party from which we all came from and for that reason, we have decided that we are going to invite our senators and rub minds with them.
“We are saying that there should not be a winner-takes-it-all; that we should carry everybody along and accommodate others as suggested by the party.”
Also shedding more light on the meeting, Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said the president and the governors specifically decided that all APC senators must as a matter of necessity learn to adopt the position of the party.
His words: “We were all elected on the platform of the party. We are not just a collection of individuals, we are a political party and when the party has spoken we must listen, otherwise if it was a game of individuals like golf then individuals can go their way.
“I think it is very clear at this point that the party has the responsibility to keep the system going, so we as progressive governors, we have listened to the President and we have discussed extensively and we are clear that the party’s position should be supported by the senators.
“This is the way it should be and we should start on a note of working closely. We as governors, we listen to the party, we expect our senators to also listen to the party. We are going to call them and tell them this is it and explain our reasons, it is about party supremacy.
16 APC governors attended the meeting.
Source:Leadership
Comments
Post a Comment