President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned all federal lawmakers elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC to an emergency meeting.
The meeting is scheduled to hold at 9am at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
The meeting, which will precede the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly is, clearly, the last attempt by the leadership of the party to mend the cracks in its fold ahead of the election of principal officers of the Assembly later today.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Lai Mohammed, said that all elected federal legislators “must endeavour to attend this meeting”.
Buhari, who had been at the G7 Summit in Germany while the crisis festered, will be making the last minute attempt after earlier ones failed.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was said to have called a similar meeting on Monday but was shunned by the aggrieved legislators.
However, Senator Bukola Saraki, one of those displeased with the leadership of the party, said he never received such an invitation.
The Peoples Democratic Party late on Wednesday announced the adoption of Saraki and Hon, Yakubu Dogara as its candidates for the positions of Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The APC had on Saturday announced Senator Ahmad Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as its consensus candidates for the Senate presidency and House speaker.
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