The Senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District, Professor Olusola Adeyeye, has described the ongoing leadership crisis in the National Assembly as a necessary evil that would better unite the party to run its vision effectively for the nation.
While speaking exclusively with DAILY POST in his office, he berated those he described as releasing “carbon monoxide poison” into the political system in order to make it look like what the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, used to be, adding that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would come out stronger and better to run the affairs of the nation effectively.
According to him, disagreements would always lead to agreement; hence the leadership crisis now was set to drive the assembly in a better perspective in the sense that it would produce the best hands as principal officers in the interest of the nation rather than individual interest.
On the inability of the Senate and its House of Representatives counterpart to elect or appoint its principal officers three weeks after inauguration, Adeyeye said people were ignorant of the workings of National Assembly, stressing that in the past, it took this long period and that there is nothing extra ordinary with the current situation.
He argued that in selecting Principal Officers, the Senate President will have to scrutinize credentials of those interested so as to be sure of their capabilities as those positions are sensitive to be placed on incompetent hands.
Meanwhile, sources from the camp of “Like Minds” Senators, headed by Dino Melaye, said the process of appointing principal officers of the National Assembly should follow due process of election. Though they have since queued behind Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume for the position of Senate Leader as against Ahmed Lawan, who is the choice of the party.
Speaking with our correspondent earlier in the day, Senator Suleiman Hunkiyi, from Kaduna Central, accused the National Working Committee of APC of trying to high jack the independence of the National Assembly by not allowing it choose its principal officers. “In the past, it was the National Assembly that determined its principal officers and we are all aware of this, why is the APC National Working Committee now tampering with this tradition”, he queried.
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