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6/11/2015

N’Assembly clerk was aware of Buhari, APC lawmakers’ meeting –Presidency

Firstclass newsline learnt that 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 that Buhari had summoned a
meeting with the All Progressives Congress, 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 onChannels
Televisiontitled '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 (Monday)."
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. 51 APC senators decided to answer the call of the
party and the President and were present to 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. The process I
meant, what I meant 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."
Firstclassnewsline.net

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