•Reaches Out To Opposition Over Amaechi
Senate President Bukola Saraki has reached out to with PDP senators of the Peoples for rapprochement taking after Thursday’s walkout of the Senate by the opposition lawmakers over the confirmation of previous Rivers State senator, Rotimi Amaechi, as a minister.
Sources on both sides confirmation to Saturday Tribune on Friday that rapprochement was ongoing and that Saraki had contacted the PDP lawmakers to sustain their friendship.
“The Senate President is unmindful of the friendship between him and the PDP senators and he is not taking that for granted. He has immediately reached out to the senators and assured them that party loyalty was responsible for his actions. I think they are resolving the grievances,” one of the sources said.
The source included that the legislators were confident that Saraki would “make up for the lapses” in the distribution of the chairmanship of Senate Standing committees which he is expected to disclose next week.