{"id":39161,"date":"2015-06-04T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=39161"},"modified":"2015-06-04T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:32:16","slug":"senate-presidency-buhari-goes-back-on-promise-endorses-lawan-as-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/senate-presidency-buhari-goes-back-on-promise-endorses-lawan-as-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Presidency: Buhari goes back on promise, endorses Lawan, as crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27225\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27239\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27238\">President Muhammadu Buhar&#8217;s \u00a0choice of Senator Ahmad Lawan for the post Senate President, has futther fractured the party caucus at the National Assembly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27246\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">This contradicts Buhari&#8217;s earlier position. He had said he was not interested in who emerges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27247\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">The move by Buhari has angered the camp of \u00a0Senator Bukola Saraki, who believes the National Working Committee members in concert with Buhari may want Lawan who is viewed as more credible and a core northerner unlike Saraki<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27240\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buhari had said two weeks \u00a0ago &#8220;<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27241\">I am prepared to work with any leader that the House or Senate selects, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who the person is or where he or she is from<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27248\">\u00a0\u201cthere is due process for the selection of leaders of the National Assembly, and I will not interfere in that process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">35 out of the 59 senators-elect under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had declared their support for Saraki. He\u00a0had \u00a0posted the video of the endorsement on his Facebook and Twitter pages with the caption \u201cvideos don\u2019t lie\u201d.The APC at the General elections won majority of the 109 seats in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, in a statement issued by Dino Melaye, for \u2018Like Minds Senators\u2019, he said, \u201cSenators of the like mind are here today at the retreat organized by our dear party, All Progressives Congress, which is meant to equip and empower Senators-Elect of the 8th Assembly to prepare them toward the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">It was learnt that a meeting<\/span><span style=\"color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0scheduled to decide on who takes the spot \u00a0was to hold\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0 at the International\u00a0Conference Center in Abuja, was called off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27257\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27256\" style=\"color: #606263; font-family: calluna, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27255\">While some said the plenary was responsible for the shift to Saturday, others allege it was a ploy by the Lawan group to re strategize.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27254\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27253\">In a meeting a day ago with members of the party\u2019s NWC, President Muhammad Buhari had signaled his preference for Lawan. According to Sahara Reporters, several sources at the meeting disclosed that Buhari said he was tipping Senator Lawan because of his experience and integrity. Mr. Lawan hails from Nigeria\u2019s violence-ravaged northeast zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27251\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1433426314952_27252\">President Buhari had asked party leaders to present one candidate as a way of projecting a united front. However, it was learnt that \u00a0the APC\u2019s national chairman, Odigie Oyegun, was pushing for a primary to enable party members to choose between Saraki and Lawan. Some APC sources disclosed that Mr. Oyegun supports former Governor Saraki\u2019s bid to emerge as the new Senate president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhar&#8217;s \u00a0choice of Senator Ahmad Lawan for the post Senate President, has futther fractured the party caucus at the National Assembly.\u00a0 This contradicts Buhari&#8217;s earlier position. 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