President Muhammadu Buhari on
Monday hosted All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators and candidates to a
dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Speaking to State House
correspondents after the dinner, the National Chairman of APC, Adams
Oshiohmole, described the event as a “nice meeting”.
He said the event had provided an
opportunity for the president to meet with the caucus of the senate and the
“incoming senators’’ (APC Senatorial candidates).
Oshiohmole expressed the hope
that Nigerians would give the APC a comfortable majority in both Senate and the
House of Representatives based on the tenet of `one-man, one-vote’.
He said: “Basically, the meeting
was for the President to meet with the caucus of the Senate and the incoming
senators by the grace of God.
“The whole idea is for the
president to have a direct interaction with the senators and the senatorial
candidates of the APC so that they will work hard and ensure that on the basis
of one-man, one-vote, the outcome of the 2019 elections will be in our favour.
“This is an opportunity for some
of the senatorial candidates to meet with the president for the first time.’’
According to him, the meeting
also enabled the president and the senators and party’s senatorial candidates
to compare and share notes on the campaigns of each of the senatorial district.
On the reactions of international
community to the suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter
Onnoghen, Oshiohmole dismissed any form of foreign outcry against the action
taken on CJN’s case, saying that Nigeria was not a colony.
He said Nigerians must defend the
supremacy of the country, adding that corrupt justices were being prosecuted
across the world.
Also speaking on the suspension
of the CJN, Senate Leader Ahmed Lawan, said it was wrong for the senate to
reconvene over the matter as there were many cases in courts challenging or
supporting the suspension.
He, however, stated that the
senate could reconvene to consider the 2019 budget proposal and the Medium-Term
Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategic Paper.
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