On Thursday federal lawmakers in the House of Representatives engaged in a free-for-all over the sharing of principal offices by the majority All Progressives Congress (APC) , Punch reports.
After the development Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) blamed President Muhammadu Buhari. PDP states that the disgraceful act in the House was a direct consequence of President Buhari’s lack of democratic credentials and lack of respect for the independence and sanctity of the legislative arm of government.
However, Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity noted that Buhari would not intervene in the leadership crisis currently rocking the National Assembly until the APC state governors asked him to do so.
Shehu said this on Sunrise, a programme on a Lagos-based private television station,Channels TV.
According to him: “When the governors met with the President, they told him that ‘we are the leaders in our states and we have influence over all of these senators. They come from our places and from us and we can handle it. The President will step into the crisis at the point when the governors say they can no longer fix it.”
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