A source said:
“Dogara and APC members were moved by Buhari’s 20-minute appeal. We saw a President who was wearied that we were not united and Dogara seized the moment. He abandoned all prejudices to put the nation and the survival of APC first.
“I think Dogara has tremendous respect for Buhari and he decided to be his own man to defer to the President and APC. He kept on asking, without the party, would I have been here? What is so difficult that we cannot resolve?
“That meeting at the Presidential Villa changed the mood of the warring factions in the House.”
Six factors listed by a Member of the House that accounted for the resolution of the crisis the Nation learnt are;
1. The Buhari 20-minute intervention on Monday night;
2. Follow-up intervention by the party leadership after the session with Buhari;
3. Dogara’s design of a consensus formula;
4. The need to compensate Gbajabiamila for his role as opposition leader in the House for eight years and in making APC a reality;
5. Reps were crisis-weary; and
6. The need to save the nation’s democracy because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was trying to capitalise on the crisis to derail Buhari’s administration.
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