The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, on Wednesday, stormed the National Assembly where he held a meeting with the Senators serving on the platform of the party.
Oyegun was accompanied by members of the APC national working committee.
Asked what his mission was, Odigie-Oyegun had told reporters that he came to “commiserate with the Senate on the death of a senator Ali Wakili”.
Oyegun added that his visit was part of moves to ensure that the party emerges victorious in the 2019 general elections.
However, the APC Senate Caucus has now made available details of the meeting with the Oyegun-led NWC of the party.
Speaking with journalists after the three-hour meeting, Senator Ahmed Lawan said the APC would set up a committee comprising of members of both the executive and legislature to address issues bedevilling the party.
The lawmaker pointed out that politicians are bound to have disagreements but the party is making attempts to reduce them to a minimum.
He said the meeting discussed the need for APC members to be committed to the party’s change mantra.
He said, “The purpose of that meeting was to review the happenings in the party across the country at all levels of government.
“We as members of the national assembly would remain and continue to be committed to ensuring that we continue to support the change agenda of this current administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The party would soon constitute a team that would comprise of the executive, legislature, the party itself and the representation from our governors, up to 24 of them or more, with Ekiti coming to the kitty. So we are very happy as a caucus that the interaction was worthwhile and I am sure the party was also glad to be here with us this afternoon.
“When you have everybody on the same page then you will reduce the level of misunderstanding to the bearest level even if we, as politicians, from time to time we have disagreements but such disagreements should not be allowed to become a cog in the wheel of progress.
“The idea of bringing everyone to the table is that everyone should be on the samepage, at party level, at national assembly so that all times should there be [no] issue. Whether it is from the executive side or on the legislature.
“The discussion centred on so many things including that [election sequence]. We are coming to a situation where that can be resolved as soon as the caucus is constituted… this kind of issue can easily be addressed.
“This is our government. We shouldn’t be fighting dirty in the public. We should be able to deal with it inside our rooms or house.”
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