President Muhammadu Buhari Moves To Resolve NASS Crisis

Conscious of the negative effect the lingering National Assembly leadership crisis is having on the current administration, President Muhammadu Buhari has proceeded last-minute moves to settle the rubble in the legislature once and for all.

According to reports, the president will, for the first time since the crisis surfaced, meet with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, his deputy and all the All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the house yesterday in Aso Villa, Abuja.

The senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed the meeting to State House correspondents yesterday.

It was reliably gathered that top on the list of agenda of the meeting scheduled to hold at the banquet hall of the presidential villa by 5.pm is how to resolve the issues of key positions in the House that have torn the APC caucus apart.

An impeccable source from the presidency told correspondent that the meeting with the APC Reps is one among other parleys President Buhari will be holding with APC federal lawmakers, as another meeting with APC senators is also in the offing.

According to the source spoke on confidentiality: “the president has concluded that he cannot just fold his arms and watch the legislature, which is also an integral part of the federal government under his watch, stray for too long when the APC government is supposed to be acting as one in setting the pace for good governance in line with their campaign promises for Nigerians.”