Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has dissociated the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), from the Senate President, Bukola Saraki’s legal travails at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Gbajabiamila made the disclosure on Thursday while fielding questions from State House Correspondents in Abuja after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Asked to comment on the report that the senate president had been offered the option of toeing the party line by dropping certain members of the Senate Leadership to accommodate the candidates of the party, the House Leader said “I can’t comment and promote things that are unsubstantiated. You know the problem is a constitutional, legal problem and I don’t know how you can treat constitutional legal problem politically. If that be the case, perhaps I may not know.”
On whether the crises rocking the National Assembly have finally been resolved, Gbajabiamila said “Everything that has a beginning, has an end. I don’t think and I don’t know if there is any leadership crisis in the National Assembly. I’m not sure at what you’re alluding to; I’m not in the Senate. But the little I understand is that there is an issue involved with the Senate President. That has nothing to do with the APC. That has to do with the issue of law and I’m sure the Senate President is being surely represented and he will have his day in court. If the matter comes up, I don’t think it’s an APC issue; it’s not an APC issue at all. There is no crisis, not in the House.”
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