President Buhari and APC leaders fail to resolve crisis

President Muhammadu Buhari, and other leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) failed to find the resolution to crisis that has been rocking the party over the National Assembly leadership.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the APC, which met in Abuja on July 3, had mandated the party’s 22 governors to meet with the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in an attempt to resolve the difference between the party’s contestant groups.

The Rochas Okorocha-led PGF met for the first time with conflict party members in the National Assembly in Abuja on Friday.

The NASS leadership alongside with Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, APC’s favored candidates for the positions of the Senate President and Speaker respectively, attended the meeting.

The peace moves of the governors was unsuccessful because the opposite groups could not accept the peace offers of some APC leaders as of the time the meeting was postponed till July (today).

It was gathered that the governors had told the party’s leadership that the crisis should be left for them to resolve.

The NASS official said that on the request of the party’s governors, the NEC did not bother to discuss the issue at its meeting on Friday.

He said: “The crisis on the sharing of leadership seats at the National Assembly did not receive any frontal attention at the NEC against expectations. What happened was that, on the request of the governors, the issue was referred to them to discuss and resolve.”

Analyses showed that the governors and the APC legislators at their meeting discussed proposals by some party leaders on ways to end the crisis.

The proposals comprised a plan that those who lost out in the contest for the National Assembly leadership should be permitted to chair their desirable committees.