Eight governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC were behind the showdown in the House of Representatives on Thursday, Vanguard can authoritatively reveal.

Worried by the crisis generated by the elections of Dr. Bukola Saraki and Rep. Yakubu Dogara as Senate president and the Speaker, House of Representatives respectively, the governors decided to wade into the elections of the principal officers.

The move was further to placate some powers-that-be in the party who felt slighted by the emergence of Saraki and Dogara against party's directive.

On Tuesday, they stormed the national secretariat of the APC apparently to make their decision known to Oyegun.

This came after they had, in a meeting, assured president Mohmmadu Buhari that they would quell the storm in the federal legislature.

Vanguard gathered that the governors were behind the letters written to the senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Rep. Yakubu Dogara in which APC as a party was said to have submitted the list of some choice candidates for the principal positions in both chambers of the National Assembly.

The letters which had the signatures of the national chairman of APC, Chief John Oyegun preferred Senator Ahmed Lawan from north east as the Majority Leader, Senator Sola Adeyeye from south west as the Chief Whip, Senator George Akume from North central as the Deputy Majority and Senator Abu Ibrahim as the Deputy Deputy Chief Whip.

Similarly, in the House of Representatives, a letter said to have been written by the party to Speaker Dogara also demanded the announcement of Femi Gbajabiamila from Lagos State in the South-west Zone as House Leader; Alhassan Ado Doguwa from Kano State as Deputy Leader; Mohammed Monguno from the North-east as Chief Whip and Pally Iriase from Edo State in the South-South as Deputy Chief Whip.

In the senate, North-East Caucus, defied the party’s directive and nominated Senate Ali Ndume as the Majority Leader as against Lawan just as Bala Ibn Na’alla was also nominated as deputy leader as against the candidacy of George Akure nominated by the party.

Senator Francis from Edo State, South South, was named the Deputy Chief Whip while Adeyeye who got lucky to be nominated as the Chief Whip from the south west rejected his nomination, leaving the office vacant.

But the in House of Representatives, the officers were not named, a development that prompted the quagmire.

An investigation into the matter on Friday revealed that APC’s national chairman, Oyegun was pressured by the 8 governors who brought the list of the candidates to write both Saraki and Dog are giving them the names for the positions.

A source close to Oyegun confided in Vanguard that the development angered Oyegun who later pleaded with the governors to allow them go into negotiations with the leaders of the National Assembly in the interest of peace instead of imposing candidates on them.

According to the source, Oyegun reasoned that it may not be out of place for the governors to share the offices amongst the State or zones but to attach names was unethical.

He further stated that every plea from the helpless chairman to the governors failed to deaf ears hence the letters.

The sources added that were it not for self restraints, Oyegun would have resigned immediately afterwards.
“At that time, the chairman became helpless. He was left with no other options than to do what the governors said. In fact, Oyegun would have resigned his chairmanship there and then because he considered that they did as unethical.

“He reminded the governors that APC stood for change, that what the party needed to do was to go into negotiation with Saraki and Dogara to prevent the case of winner-takes-all. But they insisted it must be those people. Now, you can see the outcome of their insistence”, the source said.

All information extracted from http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/nassembly-crisis-how-eight-apc-governors-tried-to-muscle-saraki-dogara/

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I will comment after my Sahoor

Omo, dis is game of thrones

APC's allocation of NASS principal offices was an insult to the SS/SE/NC .I am sure by the them the dust generated by this all settles,they will learn never to Underate any region

APC... Scatter!!

Na wa oo

If this people continue like this then 2019 another government wil come on board. They dnt know that al these crisis is fuel by PDP to disterbilize their government.

Crisis Everywhere... APC did we elect u only 4 u to give us headache and show ur name in any news headline

Most of the senators are former governors/godfathers in their states. They imposed the current State governors on the masses so i wonder how they want to control/ call the senators to order. Is it Ahmed that can call Saraki to order or Ortom to call Akume and Gemade to order. May be Ambode can ask Tinubu or Gbaja to shealth their ambitions.

Vanguard is turning into gossip news paper they are loosing credibility every day,most of their news this days are pure fake

And someone is still thinking it isn't yet time for PMB to step into resolving this amicably.
Maybe until it turns to a full blown war within the political elites.

okpamson15:
If this people continue like this then 2019 another government wil come on board. They dnt know that al these crisis is fuel by PDP to disterbilize their government.

The bolded must be a joke, why should you blame PDP for their troubles Is PDP the majority in the house or is PDP the ruling party

The problem of APC is APC itself...#Shikena

fitzmayowa:


The bolded must be a joke, why should you blame PDP for their troubles Is PDP the majority in the house or is PDP the ruling party

The problem of APC is APC itself...#Shikena

and APC problem is our own problem. Becus anytin that hapen to administration is the mases that wil sufa the pains. 4years no be 4month.

The govs are right, if saraki fail to comply, expel him from d party and he wil lose d seat. Is very simple.

Jesusloveyou:
The govs are right, if saraki fail to comply, expel him from d party and he wil lose d seat. Is very simple.

How about the case of tambuwwal

He's from APC or not his Senate President is intact that's y APC can't expunge him from the party

kingphilip:
How about the case of tambuwwal

He's from APC or not his Senate President is intact that's y APC can't expunge him from the party

is very simple to expel saraki,let him defect to pdp, he will stil lose d seat, because apc stil has d majority

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Jesusloveyou:
is very simple to expel saraki,let him defect to pdp, he will stil lose d seat, because apc stil has d majority

the same way tambuwwal lost his seat when he defected ba

kingphilip:
the same way tambuwwal lost his seat when he defected ba

my point is very simple, if saraki is expel from apc, wil he stil remain in apc which has majority in d house, that wil enable apc to elect their loyal candidate, in this case,saraki automatically lose d SP as he join d miniority party. Apc does not need to use 2/3 to remove saraki, just expurge him from apc,that wil be d end of saraki as SP.