Senate chief whip Orji Uzor Kalu is has facilitated reconciliatory visit of 22 aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) senators to President Muhammadu Buhari for them to jetisson their threat to dump the party
The Senators, had vowed to defect from the party over what they said was injustice done to them at the primaries in their states.
Leader of the delegation, Sen Kalu, indicated that the lawmakers felt disenfranchised by the process.
Speaking at the meeting, President Buhari urged the Senators to exercise restraint in their decision to defect from the party.
Several APC lawmakers have defected recently appealing to the lawmakers, President Buhari said the defections were a threat to the APC’s majority in the National Assembly.
After the meeting, Kalu said the aggrieved Senators would no longer pursue defection from the APC.
Writing on his social media page “Earlier this afternoon, I led the 22 aggrieved Senators and members of the All Progressive Congress to President Muhammad Buhari,GCFR,” Kalu, the Chief Whip of the ninth senate, said in a statement.
“Our meeting with Mr President was successful and the issue of decamping from our party has been laid to rest”, the chief whip concluded.
Lately, The All Progressive Congress (APC) has been uneasy following the gradual loss of the party’s majority in the senate, tensions have also been heightened over the rumoured bid of the 18 other senators to defect to other political parties, after the party earlier lost seven senators to the opposition parties.
