Faced with a looming crisis in securing the selection of its favored candidates for leadership posts at the Senate and House of Representatives, officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are weighing measures to force the incoming class of National Assembly members to postpone their convening beyond Wednesday. According to a senior party source, the postponement “is to enable President [Muhammadu] Buhari [to] rein in rebellious lawmakers within the ranks of our party.”


Mr. Buhari is expected back in Abuja on Thursday night after attending the ongoing G7 meeting in Germany.

Some APC lawmakers led by for former Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State have reportedly reached an alliance with People’s Democratic Party lawmakers overnight to present a PDP candidate as President of the Senate. Immediate past Senate President, David Mark, was named as the likely beneficiary of Mr. Saraki’s revolt.

Former Governor Saraki is reportedly irate that he was schemed out of the APC’s nomination for the Senate Presidency. Last Saturday, the party bypassed the former governor amid concerns that he could not be totally relied upon to lead an effective and cooperative Senate that would give President Buhari reliable legislative backing. Instead, the APC adopted Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan from Nigeria’s northeast state of Yobe as its candidate for the Senate Presidency.

SaharaReporters learnt that President Buhari had expressed serious concerns to some associates that a Nigerian Senate led by Mr. Saraki would not lend him the necessary legislative backing to wage a major war against corruption.

Mr. Saraki carries a lot of corruption baggage, dating back to his days as an executive of the defunct Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, and continuing with his tenure as Kwara State governor.

SaharaReporters also learned that another group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives were also upset with the APC’s choice of Lagos legislator, Femi Gbajabiamila, as the party’s sole candidate for Speaker. Yakubu Dogara, an aspirant for the speakership who hails from Bauchi State, leads the disaffected legislators opposed to Mr. Gbajabiamila.


An APC executive told SaharaReporters that some party leaders consider Mr. Saraki as the wrecking ball who must be subdued to ensure that the party does not lose the leadership of the Senate.


In the midst of the internal squabble within the APC, SaharaReporters learnt that former Senate President David Mark has been mobilizing disgruntled APC senators to back him for a third term in the premier post at the Senate. Another source disclosed that several PDP senators were demanding outrageous sums of money from APC leaders in exchange for casting their votes for candidates favored by the party.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/08/apc-seeking-postponement-national-assembly-leadership-elections-enable-buhari%E2%80%99s

Elections must hold tommorow.The greedines of one man or party will not be allowed to hold an entire arm if govt hostage

The poster above me reason like a madman on badly produced opium
It's politicking not greed...

Saraki will lose. Saraki is a Fulani - Yoruba from Ilorin. The president is fulani. The vice president is Yoruba. The senate president can not be Fulani - Yoruba. Lawan or Akume should take the senate president.

Watching in 3D lets see how it all plays

I thought I was reading a credible news until I saw 'sahara reporters'


mitcheeeew

Too bad

what a funny country with funny people

Ayam coming. Lemme read

Saraki or Mark

Kineticist:
The poster above me reason like a madman on badly produced opium
It's politicking not greed...

tell me why i should't call you a slowpoke?

mployer:
I thought I was reading a credible news until I saw 'sahara reporters'

mitcheeeew

The thunder wey go fire you still dey do PRESS UP!
So Sahara Reporter has suddenly become an un-credible News source abi? But if it was reporting about PDP, it would have been credible?
I swear, u bi Otolo!

mployer:
I thought I was reading a credible news until I saw 'sahara reporters'

mitcheeeew

The thunder wey go fire you still dey do PRESS UP!
So Sahara Reporter has suddenly become an un-credible News source abi? But if it was reporting about PDP, it would have been credible?
I swear, u bi Otolo!

Ezenwammadu:
Elections must hold tommorow.The greedines of one man or party will not be allowed to hold an entire arm if govt hostage

Nothing like geediness my friend. You keep spewing this same rubbish every time just because of APC.

You be polittician?

Half-baked educated illiterate!

@topic, this news cannot be relied upon on the ffg grounds
1. How did SR know that PMB will return on Thursady.
2. If PMB will not return until Thursday, who is expected to inaugurate the Houses tomorrow?
3. David Mark is a dead on arrival case and Saraki will not even think of it. If Saraki will revolt, it makes sense for him to contest against Lawan than propping up Mark.

mployer:
I thought I was reading a credible news until I saw 'sahara reporters'

mitcheeeew

The thunder wey go fire you still dey do PRESS UP!
So Sahara Reporter has suddenly become an un-credible News source abi? But if it was reporting about PDP, it would have been credible?
I swear, u bi Otolo!

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