Recall that ahead of the inauguration of the eighth assembly on June 9, two divergent groups emerged – Senate Unity Forum, led by Barnabas Gemade; a senator from Benue state, and – Likeminded Senators, led by Dino Melaye, a senator from Kogi state.

The Gemade group was Ahmed Lawan’s bulwark while the Melaye group was Saraki’s. Both groups schemed in a political gladiatorial combat to outwit each other.

Things became “combustible” when the APC endorsed Lawan as its preferred candidate for the position and directed all its members in the senate to support his candidature. But Saraki would not back down; he defied his party. He then courted PDP members of the senate who joined his chariot.

The APC in the senate became bipolarised, and the party had a first taste of crimson crisis.

On the ‘D-Day, Saraki, Ike Ekweremadu and a host of his loyalists were at the national assembly complex. And minutes before 10am, when the inauguration was expected to start, they were seated in the red chamber. But Lawan and his group were absent. They had gone for a meeting at the International Conference Centre (ICC) on the most important day in the life of any lawmaker.

The inauguration commenced even after news had rippled that it would not take place. Saraki was nominated, but there was no challenger. The clerk of the national assembly, who officiated, asked repeatedly if there was a challenger, but there was none.

Saraki afterwards assumed the position of senate president unchallenged. It was in the closing of the event that some of Lawan’s supporters thronged in, in bewilderment and confusion. But the “did” had been done.

Reports later said that the APC leadership had called for a meeting with all its members in the senate to smooth out the contours ahead of the inauguration, but that Saraki and his “gang” boycotted it.


Since the APC therefore did not make @Bukola Saraki the Senate President of the 8th Assembly, they can't unmake him even after all efforts they'd employed, failed.


They should deal with it and use the remaining months leading to the end of their tenure to give Nigerians the much expected dividend of democracy they were elected for and stop....!!!

“Some people might try to tell you that it’s a banana. They might scream, ‘Banana, banana, banana,’ over and over and over again. They might put BANANA in all caps. You might even start to believe that this is a banana. But it’s not. This is an apple.”

Buhari sak

dey ar just delusional...saraki will remain der as d senate presido.

tsephanyah:


“Some people might try to tell you that it’s a banana. They might scream, ‘Banana, banana, banana,’ over and over and over again. They might put BANANA in all caps. You might even start to believe that this is a banana. But it’s not. This is an apple.”

Buhari sak

Wait wait...what is happening to you? Mynd44, how can somebody be repeating the same thing over and over again? Is everything okay with you?