The All Progressives congress has finally accepted the Bukola Saraki as the Senate President after muck controversy generated by his recent election.
The party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Friday said the party has now accepted Senator Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate, saying having been elected by his colleagues, party was now ready to accept the reality and live with it.
DAILY POST recalls that Saraki’s emergence as the Senate President has since become a subject of controversy with his party claiming that it already gave the mandate to Ahmed Lawan.
However, Odigie-Oyegun while speaking with the State House correspondents shortly after joining members of the transition committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to present their report to the President at the Defence House, Abuja said the party has now rested its case against Saraki.
Odigie in response to whether the party has now accepted him, said , “Of course! He has been duly elected by his colleagues. We have a reality and we must live with it.”
He also defended Saraki’s absence at the APC secretariat on Thursday for a meeting, saying there were a lot of consultations going on at that time and that Saraki couldn’t have been in two places at the same time.
He said “Nothing went wrong (on Saraki’s aborted visit), there were a lot of consultations and you can’t be in two places at the same time.
“So, it was not comfortable for us, but we have been talking. We don’t want to make a song and dance of it, everything is being put in proper perspective,” he said.
The Chairman said the ongoing NASS election crisis was nothing compared the type the party had faced in the past, saying it will soon be left behind.
“It is not the first or second time we have passed through this kind of scenario and we came out strong. This may not even be the last time, we come out every time stronger and more determined,” he said.
He assured that the crisis was been resolved as it was an internal squabble.
He also said that those agitating for court action were only looking at the situation from a legal point of view in their own right.
“People say they are going to court which is their right, but as a party, we are looking at everything and we are coming out strong,” he affirmed.
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