By Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja

For the first time since the inauguration of the National Assembly on June 9, 2015, the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will today meet with the Senate leadership at the secretariat of the party in Abuja to lay the foundation for a renewed relationship.

THISDAY learnt last night that the move was part of the fresh arrangements to strengthen the renewed relationship between the executive and the legislature as well as the relationship between the party leadership and the leadership of the National Assembly.

THISDAY was reliably informed last night that in this renewed move to bury the hatchet between the party leadership and the National Assembly, today’s meeting will set the pace for a forthcoming meeting with the APC caucus in the National Assembly.

The meeting will cement a fresh romance between the APC caucus and leaders of the ruling APC to be led by its National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.

It was further learnt that the planned meeting with the leadership of the party and the National Assembly will hold before the National Assembly proceeds on Christmas and New Year break. A source privy to the information told THISDAY last night that the meeting would either take place before or after the presentation of the 2016 budget.

THISDAY further learnt that this fresh move was spurred by a piece of advice to the presidency that it was not enough for President Muhammadu Buhari to commence moves to build a better relationship with the Senate leadership without involving the party leadership.

Besides Senate President Bukola Saraki visiting the Presidential Villa three times in one week, a rare development since his emergence as the Senate president on June 9, last year, the Chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum and Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, had recently visited Saraki in his office where he emphasised the need to chart a new course within the party.

Okorocha had harped on the need to ensure unity of purpose among stakeholders in the party and forge a new relationship capable of overshadowing the hitherto estranged relationship between the party and Senate leadership.

There has been no love lost between Buhari, members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC and Saraki since June 9, 2015 when he emerged as the Senate president against the wish of his party.

As a result of the situation, the NWC of the party had never attempted to meet with the Senate leadership as well as the APC caucus in the Senate as the case should be.

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No Meetings on new Economic Plans to cushion the effect of recession on the masses.

Vessi:
Buhari now sends Oyegun to negotiate with Saraki.
No wonder the charges against him at COC have been dropped so he will be willing to romance. Buhari has now understood Saraki is extremely important for his 2019 reelection and implementation of budget and has now been forced down to be humble.

Ntoor!

Africonji:
OYEGUN is a fOOLLANI slave. He and Tunubu and the rest Southerners slaves in APC don't know that Buhari and Saraki are Foolanis and were working together on Foollani agenda to enslave the country from the very beginning. So now they are trying to reconcile with Saraki? No more anti-party accusations? Confused fools. No more room for APC in 2019. Mark my words.


Biafra.a is only lasting solution to the problems of this country.

Boleyndynasty2:
They shouldn't 4get to reconcile with Tinubu oh

modath:



The day you understand why the Nigerian president is the most powerful president in the whole world you will realise the kind of comic relief the highlighted really is...


Go & read OBJ's "My Watch", you'd understand better..

john4reala:
this is Otinkoto uduumbama ukanki .... period

Vessi:
Buhari now sends Oyegun to negotiate with Saraki.
No wonder the charges against him at COC have been dropped so he will be willing to romance. Buhari has now understood Saraki is extremely important for his 2019 reelection and implementation of budget and has now been forced down to be humble.

Ntoor!

Vessi:


Story and self-consolation, distortion of self-view. Then why isn't Saraki and other cohorts in jail yet after about Two years prosecution already? Buhari has learnt his lesson the hard way. Saraki is just indispensable. You better aknowledge this and fear this romance as it is geared towards making Tinubu more irrelevant and reelecting Buhari. Saraki remains King in North Central.

AnodaIT:
Too late, We are already for Atiku.

If una like drop all the charges for Saraki, he I now a new creature in APC, old things have passed away.

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Bigajeff:
Sorry o, is Oyegun now the new Jagaban of APC please wake me up if I'm sleeping

omowolewa:
Now politic has started

Esseite:
Politics....

New cabal, new soldiers.... strategizing for 2019.

Future review..

Oyegun would welcome fayose into Apc..
Ayade would cross
Akpabio would cross
Peter obi would cross
Apga would allign with apc..
Wike would align with apc..

Tinubu would be sidelined
Amaechi would be sidelined

A new opposition would be formed btw tinubu,atiku and angry "now apc members"..

Apc would eventually become PDP.

And we are back to where we left from... running in circles eventually.