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Buhari Refuses To Meet With Saraki by Giyerte(m): 9:42am On Jul 12, 2015 |
President Muhammadu Buhari has resisted
fresh moves by the Senate President, Senator
Bukola Saraki, to formally meet with him,
SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.
An official in the Presidency who confided in
one of our correspondents on Saturday said
the President and the Senate President had
only met once since the latter’s emergence
as the leader of the senate.
The official said all efforts by Saraki to have
another meeting with the president, after the
party’s National Executive Council meeting
penultimate Friday, were rebuffed by Buhari.
The reliable source said the president of the
Senate had at different times reached out to
people to help him persuade Buhari to grant
him audience.
Saraki had defied the All Progressives
Congress to contest for the position of the
senate president on June and emerged
victorious after a controversial election that
excluded a sizeable number of senators. The
APC had endorsed Senator Ahmed Lawan as
its candidate for the senate presidency.
The government official who spoke to
SUNDAY PUNCH said, “The truth is that the
President is still displeased with what
transpired in the National Assembly,
especially the Senate.
“Their encounter during the APC National
Executive Council meeting, when they shook
hands, was the first meeting between
President Buhari and Saraki since he
emerged as the President of the Senate.
“We are aware that Saraki has been going
about begging people to assist him to plead
with the President to meet with him. That
was one of the reasons why he visited
former President Obasanjo.
“I can tell you that the President is very
pained by what happened. He felt that since
he had been transparent with the party,
everybody should play that way. But since
Saraki took that path, the President was and
he is still pained. Let us just hope that at the
end of it all, they will be able to put the
matter behind them.”
Also speaking to SUNDAY PUNCH, a highly
placed party official, who spoke on condition
of anonymity because of the sensitivity of
the issue, told one of our correspondents
that the handshake between the President
and Saraki during the recent NEC meeting of
the APC “was for journalists.”
He stated, “President Buhari is still upset
because of what happened. If you read in-
between the line his speech during our last
NEC meeting, he reminded people who joined
the party after it was formed not to rubbish
the sacrifices made by party leaders.
“It was not for the fun of it that the President
took time to go down the memory lane to
trace the genesis of the APC.
“Although the President said he was prepared
to work with anybody who emerged as
leader in the National Assembly, he did not
envisage a scenario where Saraki would
emerge as the Senate President and Ike
Ekweremadu, a member of the PDP, would
emerge as the deputy president of the
Senate.”
Asked whether or not the President might
change his mind anytime soon, the source
said, “Not until the governors, who were
mandated by the NEC to resolve the matter
in the National Assembly, bring the matter
under control.”
When contacted, the Special Adviser to the
Senate President on Media and Publicity, Mr.
Yusuph Olaniyonu, said there was no cause
for alarm. During a telephone interview on
Saturday, Olaniyonu said Buhari had
repeatedly told Nigerians that he believed in
the independence of the parliament.
He explained that Buhari had had cause to
formally communicate with on “state issues”
and that they exchanged warm pleasantries
at the APC NEC meeting held in Abuja.
He said, “The president of a nation can have
private discussions with the Senate President
or the Speaker of the House of
Representatives anytime he likes.
“At the moment, President Buhari, probably
wants the issue around the National
Assembly leadership positions formally
resolved before calling for such meetings. He
has said that he would not involve himself in
the affairs of the legislature and we should
respect his views.”
Olaniyonu explained that Saraki and Buhari
had been having regular official
communication and that such would
continue because the Senate would have to
approve all appointments made by the
President.
Asked why the President had met with the
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Yakubu Dogara, without meeting with Saraki
up till now, Olaniyonu answered that he was
not aware of the Buhari-Dogara meeting.
He said, “I am not aware of that meeting you
talked about. If the meeting had held, the
picture taken afterwards would have been
published in the dailies. To the best of my
knowledge, I don’t think there was anything
like that. “
Also, the spokesperson for the pro-Saraki
Senators of Like Minds, Dino Melaye, told
one of our correspondents on Saturday that
Saraki and Buhari met and had fruitful
deliberation at the NEC meeting of the APC.
“The President and the Senate President met
at the NEC meeting. We are all awaiting the
outcome of the peace moves initiated at the
meeting. For now, there is no cause for
concern,” he said.
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Re: Buhari Refuses To Meet With Saraki by Visocrate(m): 9:59am On Jul 12, 2015 |
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Re: Buhari Refuses To Meet With Saraki by Giyerte(m): 10:05am On Jul 12, 2015 |
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