The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that the governing party with the majority of senators and members-elect in the 9th National Assembly would not allow the opposition to hijack strategic committees.
APC National Chairman Adams Oshiomhole stated this at a dinner hosted by President Muhammadu Buhari for all the party’s Senators, Senators-elect and some APC state governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The APC chairman disclosed that the essence of the dinner was to plan on how to manage leadership of the National Assembly to ensure that there would be no need to do business with the opposition this time around.
He revealed the party, with about 65 Senators-elect and 223 House of Representatives members-elect out of the 360, was in the position to make and take decisions without necessarily seeking the support of the opposition at the National Assembly.
He mocked the 15 out of the 16 APC Senators that defected to other parties saying that “Nigerians punished them”, noting that, “the one that God left was for him to entertain the house”, apparently making reference to Sen. Dino Melaye.
On Ifeanyi Ubah, who was among the senators-elect at the dinner, Oshiomhole described him as a smart politician for joining the APC.
Ubah was elected as a senator on February 23 under the platform of the Young Progressive Party before announcing his defection to APC recently.
(NAN)