The Presidency on Wednesday disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari
and his government will not allow the emergence of saboteurs in the
leadership of the ninth National Assembly (NASS).
This was disclosed by a senior aide to the President on a condition of anonymity.
According
to him, the President will ensure that only persons selected by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) emerge as
President of the Senate and other presiding officers of both the red and
green chambers.
Even as he declared that the President has no
preferred candidates for the position of the principal officer of the
parliament, he said that he is ready and willing to support the decision
of the leadership of the party in line with worked out zoning
arrangements.
He said the presidency had never had it smooth with
the relationship that existed between it and the leadership of the eight
National Assembly and will therefore not sit to fold its arms while
another set of unfriendly characters emerge in the next dispensation.
He
said “Be rest assured that the President will not micro-manage the
process electing the National Assembly leadership but he will not allow
the lawlessness that happened in 2015 to repeat itself.
“The
President will allow the decision of the party to remain supreme. Once
the party zones the positions, he will give maximum support to it.
“It
is not like before, now, the decision of the party is supreme. You see
what has happened to the two governors. In the past, this won’t have
been possible.
“What I can tell you is that the President doesn’t have any preferred candidates,” he said.
At
the beginning of the eight parliament, Senate President, Bukola Saraki,
and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, had emerged
against the arrangement of the APC leadership.
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