The presidency has explained the reason behind the absence of Speaker of the House of Representatives,Yakubu Dogara at the meeting President Muhammadu Buhari held on Wednesday night with Femi Gbajabiamila and his All Progressives Congress,APC supporters in Abuja.
“ It was a mistake, possibly our own to have assumed that Speaker Dogara was expected at the meeting with President yesterday(Wednesday). He was not invited because he had had his own meeting with the President earlier on”, a presidency official said Thursday night.
“The President having heard from the Speaker needed to hear out Gbajabiamila and the 174 APC loyalist members behind him” the statement said.
“When he met the representatives of APC the caucus on Tuesday night President Buhari rued the fact that ‘we won the battle and lost the war’. Without mentioning him in names, said that” those who went with the PDP know that they are killing the APC.”
“He said he is thoroughly disappointed about what happened in the Senate and is still agonising over it, but equally blamed the APC majority for failing to assert their numerical superiority.
Buhari said he expected Senator Saraki and Dogara to bend in deference to the Party leadership, because,as he said, “we have to make the choice of either having a party or none at all. I believe in the superiority of the party over all members so this issue and all others, I will continue to stand with the Party,” the President told the meeting.
President Buhari is also expected to emphasise at tomorrow’s NEC meeting, that he is a product the party due process himself, and would not allow due process to end with him.
