President Muhammadu Buhari has noted the outcome of the just-concluded election of leaders of the National Assembly.
A statement issued by the Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) said
the president would rather that the process of electing the leaders as
initiated and concluded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) had been
followed. Nonetheless the President took the view that a constitutional
process has somewhat occurred.
“President Buhari had said in an earlier statement that he did not
have any preferred candidate for the Senate and the House of
Representatives, and that he was willing to work with whoever the
lawmakers elected,” Adesina said. “That sentiment still stands. Though
he would have preferred the new leaders to have emerged through the
process established by the party”.
Adesina stressed that the stability of our constitutional order and
overall interest of the common man were uppermost on the President’s
mind, as far as the National Assembly elections were concerned.
The President called on all the elected representatives of the people
to focus on the enormous task of bringing enduring positive change to
the lives of Nigerians.
Also, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the election of
Bukola Saraki as Senate President and Yakubu Dogara as Speaker of the
Federal House of Representatives.
A statement issued on Tuesday, by the party’s national publicity
secretary, Lai Mohammed, said: “Senator Bukola and Hon. Dogara are not
the candidates of the APC and a majority of its National Assembly
members-elect for the positions of Senate President and House Speaker.”
“The party duly met and conducted a straw poll and clear candidates
emerged for the posts of Senate President, Deputy Senate President and
Speaker of the House of Representatives, supported by a majority of all
Senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives. All
National Assembly members-elect who emerged on the platform of the party
are bound by that decision.”
“The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that of its
individual members. Consequently, the APC leadership is meeting in a bid
to reestablish discipline in the party and to mete out the necessary
sanctions to all those involved in what is nothing but a monumental act
of indiscipline and betrayal to subject the party to ridicule and create
obstacles for the new administration. There can be no higher level of
treachery, disloyalty and insincerity within any part.”