{"id":96471,"date":"2022-06-28T20:43:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=96471"},"modified":"2022-06-28T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:43:01","slug":"apc-caucus-crisis-kalu-leads-22-aggrieved-senators-to-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/apc-caucus-crisis-kalu-leads-22-aggrieved-senators-to-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Caucus Crisis: Kalu leads 22 aggrieved Senators to\u00a0 Buhari\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 22 aggrieved Senators serving on the platform of the All Progressives Congress were led to President Muhammadu Buhari to halt their reported defection from the party on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators had vowed to defect from the party over the outcome of primaries in their state ahead of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the delegation, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, said the lawmakers felt disenfranchised by the process.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nSpeaking at the meeting, President Buhari urged the Senators to exercise restraint in their decision to defect from the party.<\/p>\n<p>Several APC lawmakers have defected recently. Appealing to the lawmakers, President Buhari said the defections were a threat to the APC\u2019s majority in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, Kalu said the aggrieved Senators would no longer pursue defection from the APC.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nWriting on his social media page, &#8220;Earlier this afternoon, I led the 22 aggrieved Senators and members of the All Progressive Congress to President Muhammad Buhari,GCFR,\u201d Kalu, the Chief Whip of the ninth senate, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur meeting with Mr President was successful and the issue of decamping from our party has been laid to rest&#8221;, the Chief Whip concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, the APC has been uneasy following the gradual loss of the party\u2019s majority in the senate, tensions have also been heightened over the rumoured bid of the 18 other senators to defect to other political parties, after the party earlier lost seven senators to the opposition parties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\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>No fewer than 22 aggrieved Senators serving on the platform of the All Progressives Congress were led to President Muhammadu Buhari to halt their reported defection from the party on&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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