Presidency-Senate Standoff: APC Leadership To Meet Lawmakers Tuesday
The leadership of the All Progressive Congress will meet with party caucus of the Senate on Tuesday with a view to end the ongoing brawl between the Executive and the National Assembly.
The WHISTLER can recall that the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, last week met with the House of Representatives APC caucus with the aim of finding a lasting solution.
National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who spoke to newsmen after the meeting, said that Oyegun appealed to the lawmakers to support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Ahead of Tuesday’s meeting, the National Working Committee expressed happiness with the move by President Buhari to set up a committee to end the seeming faceoff between the executive and the legislature.
According to the party, the committee headed by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, is a step in the right direction, which demonstrates Buhari’s recognition of the position of the legislature in a democratic institution.
It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari last week, set up a committee to resolve the perennial rift between the executive and the legislature.
The committee was set up on Wednesday during a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by the President.
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The committee, chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has as members, all ministers who were at one time federal legislators as well as the Senior Special Assistants to the President on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang (Senate) and Samaila Kawu (House of Representatives).
