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Saturday, 13 June 2015

APC Finally Accepts Saraki as Their Senate President

You all are aware Senator Bukola Saraki emerged on Tuesday as Senate President after he was returned unopposed by 57 senators. The APC had earlier rejected the emergence of Saraki as Senate President and Yakubu Dogara as Speaker, House of Representatives, saying the action of the new National Assembly leaders and their supporters amounted to treachery and disloyalty.
It seems the APC have accepted the defeat and subsequently moved passed this one after threatening legal actions.
The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Oyegun, while speaking with State House Correspondents at the Defence House, Abuja, yesterday, said that there was no cause for alarm over the emergence of Sakari as the Senate President, stressing that he was duly elected.
Oyegun said,
“of course he has been duly elected by his colleagues. We have a reality and we must live with it.” He maintained that what had happened was within the party as a family which could be resolved.
Oyegun said, “there is no next step, what has happened is within the APC family and we are sorting it out within the family. People say they are going to court which is their right, but as a party we are looking at everything and we are coming out strong.
“We have faced greater challenges before and this too shall pass away. It is not the first or second time we have passed through and we came out strong. This may not even be the last time, we come out every time stronger and more determined.”
On the aborted visit of Saraki to the APC secretariat on Thursday, Oyegun said
“nothing went wrong, there were a lot of consultations and you can’t be in two places at the same time and so it was not comfortable for us, but we have been talking . We don’t want to make a song and dance of it, everything being put in proper perspective.”.

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