No fewer than twenty-two aggrieved Senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who had earlier threatened to dump the party have changed their mind after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday evening.
The Senators, had assured President Muhammadu Buhari after the meeting that they will not leave the party again.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the Senators were led to a meeting with President Buhari by the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday shortly after meeting with Buhari, Kalu revealed that the Senators have assured that they won’t leave the APC again.
The Senators, it was gathered, were angry over the outcome of the primary elections in the APC, where they lost out.
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President Buhari said the defections were a threat to the All Progressives Congress APC’s majority in the National Assembly.
‘Earlier this afternoon, I led the 22 aggrieved Senators and members of the All Progressive Congress to President Muhammad Buhari,GCFR,’ Kalu, the Chief Whip of the ninth senate, said in a statement.
‘Our meeting with Mr President was successful and the issue of decamping from our party has been laid to rest.’
A former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the APC, Femi Fani-Kayode had a few days ago revealed that no fewer than twenty-two more senators of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) have concluded plans to dump from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
He revealed on Wednesday that the planned defection is because the senators were denied the party’s ticket to contest the 2023 elections during the just concluded primaries by the party.
Africa Today News, New York observed that most of the instances were actually orchestrated by their sitting Governors who were second-term Governors whose eyes were also firmly fixed on the red chambers.