Ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC), National convention, the leadership of the National Assembly, has agreed to work for the emergence of consensus candidates in order to have a peaceful convention on Saturday, March 26.
The Senate President Ahmed Lawan, told State House Correspondents after the meeting, with President Mohammadu Buhari, that the meeting of the Principal Officers of the Assembly, called by President Muhammadu Buhari was productive.
Lawan said the meeting dwelt on how to have a peaceful convention and the need to remain focused in ensuring achievement of more developmental projects to the people.
According to the Senate President, President Buhari stressed the need for unity and togetherness among the party members stating that the convention is very crucial in the life of the party.
“This is not what we’re used to in the legislature. But now that we are confronted with this question of what we discussed with Mr. President. Mr. President, our leader of the party, the All Progressives, Congress in the country, and beyond, invited the principal officers of the APC to hold today’s meeting with us.
“Mr. President emphasized the need for us, in the APC to be united, always act as a family, and ensure that we remain focused. We have the leadership of Nigeria today at the national level and of course, we have many states, about 22 states, under the leadership of the APC.
“We have 22 states and then control of the Federal Government and that requires that APC as a political party must remain very focused, energetic, and purposeful, as it has always been, and ensure that we maintain the trajectory of development for our country, because that is the trust Nigerians gave to us in 2015 and renewed in 2019.
“Mr. President also emphasized the need for us to ensure that we have a successful convention on the 26th of March. This convention, by way of emphasis is a very important convention for us in the APC, and by the grace of God, through our processes and procedures, at different levels of the party, the convention would be a very successful and very peaceful one.
“We hope that would have achieved so much consensus in selecting and electing the officers for this party so that when we go into the convention, most of the officers would be for affirmation or confirmation.”
“Finally, I want to say that this meeting with Mr. President has given us more energy. We believe that there is a father, at least in our party, there is a President who will ensure that once there are disagreements, he is able to call everybody to order and ensure that the family continues to remain united and that is what we have been able to achieve over the years.
“And I want to add here, finally, to say that we are committed to ensuring that this political party does not only have a successful convention, but a very successful, peaceful and safe electioneering campaigns during 2022/2023 general campaigns and the general elections, by the grace of God, we’ll see Nigerians voting once again, for APC, because we have so far done so much in the areas that matter for the people of this country.@ he said
Speaking also, the Speaker of the Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, also said that said they had a productive meeting with the President.
He added that the main focus of gathering with the President was to work on the stakeholders of the party to team up together as a family and have a peaceful and very successful convention.
“This meeting was a productive one. As many of you are aware, the President, in the last couple of days, has been having meetings with stakeholders concerning the convention that is coming up on Saturday.
Femi Gbajabiamila stated.
Some of the principal officers in the delegation from the Senate were, Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, Senator Abdullahi Yahaya, Senate Leader, Ajayi BorofficeDeputy Senate Leader, Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu, Deputy Chief Whip, Sabi Abudullahi and those of the House of Representatives are Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase, Alhassan Ado Dogowa – Majority Leader, Mohammed Tahir Monguno- Chief Whip, Hon Nkeiruka Onyejeocha Deputy Chief Whip among others.