President Muhammadu Buhari has made it clear that Senate President, Bukola Saraki killed All Progressives Congress (APC) by inviting people in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to partake in the leadership of the Senate.
Senior special assistant to the President on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu quoted Buhari in a statement today to have said that he was thoroughly disappointed about what happened in the Senate and is still agonising over it, but equally blamed the APC majority for failing to assert their numerical superiority.
Garba Shehu said that President Buhari spoke when he met the representatives of APC the caucus on Tuesday night and that he said: “we (APC) won the battle and lost the war. Those who went with the PDP know that they are killing the APC.”
President Buhari said that he expected Senator Saraki and Dogara to bend in deference to the Party leadership, because,as he said, “we have to make the choice of either having a party or none at all. I believe in the superiority of the party over all members so this issue and all others, I will continue to stand with the Party,”
Garba Shehu then said that it was a mistake on their part to have assumed that Speaker Dogara was expected at the meeting with the President yesterday, adding that he was not invited because he had had his own meeting with the President earlier on.
“The President having heard from the Speaker needed to hear out Gbajabiamila and the 174 APC loyalist members behind him.” [myad]