Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The two politicians who are former governors of a
South-South and South-East states, are said to be
the main financiers of the revolt against the
president and his party, the APC.
The governors are said to have mobilised a huge war
chest for bankrolling the political revolt against the
candidates endorsed by the president and his party
for the post of Senate President and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
The former governors are reported to have hatched
the plot in a desperate bid to ensure that the APC,
which controls the majority in both chambers of the
National Assembly, does not produce the two key
principal officers in the 8th National Assembly.
They are said to have mobilised their members in the
two chambers of the NASS and directed them not to
work with the two men endorsed by the APC but to
work with those who have defied the leadership of
the APC and Buhari in the choice of the two
principal officers.
The attention of the President is said to have been
drawn to the activity of the two former governors
before he departed Nigeria for the G7 meeting in
Germany.
Apparently not being able to proffer a response to
the development, the President is said to have
referred the matter to the National Leader of the APC,
Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, and asked him to take steps
to douse the tension being generated over the
election of the two principal officers.
However, while Tinubu has waded into the matter
with a view to ensuring that the APC produces the
two leaders in the NASS, key loyalists of the
president are said to be peeved that many senators
and House of Representatives members on the
platform of the party had openly revolted against the
party.
A top source told Vanguard last night that the
affected men would be made to face some
disciplinary actions to be decided at the highest
level of the party.
"We are sure that some of them would be made to
sight their report cards with the new EFCC to be put
in place by the president, which will not tolerate
graft in any form. The feeling seems to be that the
name of a former military officer being suggested as
the chairman of the anti-corruption agency is
already sending shock waves to some of the political
actors in the country and they may not like to be
caught on the wrong side of history," the source
explained.
On the other hand, the two former governors, who
are now Senators on the platform of the PDP, are
said to have argued that they needed to work out
alliance with the APC members to take over the
National Assembly so as to cover their tracks in the
states they recently left behind.
A lawmaker close to Senator Saraki and
Representatives Dogara vowed last night that they
were going ahead to contest the election despite
threats from the APC leadership.
Source: Vanguard
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