The Senior Special Assistant to President
Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity,
Garba Shehu, says the Senate President, Bukola
Saraki, and the Clerk of the National Assembly,
Salisu Maikasuwa, were aware of the meeting
Buhari and the leadership of the All Progressives
Congress had with the APC senators before the
Senate was inaugurated.
Shehu said both Saraki and the clerk should
have extended that respect to Buhari by
postponing the inauguration but they failed to do
so.
The presidential spokesman said this during a
programme on Channels Television, Sunrise Daily,
on Tuesday.
Shehu said Buhari did not bother attending the
meeting with the 51 APC senators at the
International Conference Centre because Saraki
had emerged Senate President before the
meeting could even hold.
He said, “President Buhari had planned to be
there (at the meeting) to show support for the
party but once the process had begun, the point
had been lost.
“Senator Saraki directly or indirectly and the
clerk of the National Assembly were reached
directly or indirectly and they would have shown
that respect to Mr. President, but the process
went ahead. And that is it.
“The clerk and Senator Saraki, the key characters
in all of these, had sufficient information directly
or indirectly coming to them that the President
would be meeting the party members. The
assumption would have been that every loyal
and committed party member would have
presented themselves to the party and to their
President. That did not happen yesterday
(Tuesday).”
Shehu said Saraki might still have emerged the
Senate President but the inauguration of the
Senate should have been delayed out of respect
for the President. He said the APC senators
showed respect for the President by showing up
for the meeting and did not err by doing so.
He said, “They chose to be absent. They chose
to respect their party and the President. Fifty
APC senators decided to answer the call of the
party and the President and were present at this
meeting. It was not as if it was a secret
meeting.”
Shehu denied reports that Buhari lured the 51
senators to the ICC so that Saraki could emerge
the Senate President.
He said the meeting was not secret as it had
been announced by the party the previous day.
He said, “The party had begun a process and
concluded it and some of these actors were part
of that process. They knew what had happened.
There was a shadow election of some sort. It is
clear that there was nothing accidental in all of
these things that happened. What I mean is that
the APC, as a party, had begun a process for
choosing leaders. There was a shadow election
in which leaders were chosen on the platform of
the political party and it was complete. There
was no doubt about it.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/nassembly-clerk-notified-of-buhari-apc-lawmakers-meeting-presidency/

GEJ till 2029

Olisah Metuh rightly stated and l quote

“By the last minute attempt to shift the inauguration time for party interest, the President violates his Presidential oath to defend the constitution and serve the nation without fear or favour and irrespective of party, religion and tribe, as he did not consider the interests of other political parties and the generality of Nigerians”,

Saraki would have honoured the call for the meeting from the President as a sign of respect to the office of the president knowing fully well that even after the meeting with or without the support of the senators that attended the meeting he would still emerge as the winner since has the backing opportunists swines called PDP. However, my advise to APC is to swallow the bitter pill since Saraki is still a member of the party and move on. By implication APC will have to work more on the party structure and avoid all forms of self imposition, look at ways to deliver their campaign promises to the people and demand more loyalty and discipline from all his members !!!

MizMyColi:




Oga Shehu, tell us the truth, was Buhari sleeping or not?
How do you schedule an inauguration and a caucus meeting at the same time?

Wait, had it been that meeting held, you would have kept the PDP senators waiting for you to finish your meeting before attending to them?
They should have delayed as a sign of respect, why? Because you're the majority? when there was already a set time? The same president who locked out a foreigner for coming late to a dinner?
Is this how you intend to fight indiscipline?
I heard Buhari waged a war against indiscipline in the 1980s....is 2015 any different?
Why the double facedness?
I smell lies Oga. Lies!

Say it as is.
Oga BuBu was asleep and when he awoke, the done had been deed

Reminds me of that popular APC phrase "jet lag" ; D

lalasticlala, Good afternoon Sir.

I hope this Senate issue won't be an excuse why archaic Buhari will not feed school children and #5000 to jobless youths and one year corpers upkeep.

wonderful,APC really wanted to postpone the second arm of govt from seating! meehnnn!SSA keep pouring it out!

wonderful,APC really wanted to postpone the second arm of govt from seating! meehnnn!SSA keep pouring it out!

Buhari has spoken
Thief-nubu see ur life.. Buhari set u up....
Sai Saraki
Sai Dogara
Sai Buhari

dunkem21:
lalasticlala, Good afternoon Sir.

made fp last night

lalasticlala:

made fp last night

My bad ..I'll keep trying like Saraki

Okay