Abuja — The All Progressive Congress, APC, yesterday, said
it will provide a conducive atmosphere for its members in the National Assembly
to elect its officers.
National Chairman of the party, John
Odigie Oyegun, disclosed this after leading members of the National Working
Committee of the party to a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to Chief Oyegun, the NWC
met with President Buhari to assure him of their unalloyed support and loyalty.
On the emergence of the leadership
of the National Assembly, the APC chairman assured that there would be no
crisis in the choice of leaders of the National Assembly.
House of Representatives
He said: “There will be no crisis, I
want to give you that assurance. We are very conscious of the fact that the
National Assembly is a separate arm of government and the constitution
provides that they are the ones responsible for electing their officers. All we
have to do is provide for them a conducive environment of doing just that.”
He said he led his colleagues
in the National Working Committee to pay their respects to the President.
“We have not done so before now
because we wanted the event to move to the ultimate climax which is his
installation as President and Commander-in-Chief and that has occurred. So we
just came here to felicitate with him, pledge our loyalty, determination to
work with him through thick and thin. That he can always depend on the party
that he used as a platform to become President of this great nation.
“We noted the fact that expectations
are extremely high and that the public expects a totally new dawn. On
that score, we told him we are with you, Mr. President you will succeed because
the entire party will be galvanized as one man behind you to ensure that days
into this presidency that Nigerians will indeed see that things are changing.”
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