Ahead of their scheduled parley with the ruling All Progressives Congress and the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in Abuja, a number of senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives were on Sunday spotted in town.
Among those seen were the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, who was recently re-elected as the senator representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, and Kano North senator-elect, Barau Jibrin.
The closed door meeting, which is scheduled to hold at the State House in Abuja on Monday, has generated a lot of talking interest in the last few days.
Although the agenda of the meeting was not revealed, a source at the APC secretariat told our correspondent that it has to everything do with early consultation and strategic plan concerning the issue of zoning of the Senate Presidency, Speaker for the House of Reps and other principal offices of the National Assembly.
According to the source, the ‘ghost of the civilian coup’ executed by the duo of Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara to emerge as Senate President and House of Representatives Speaker in 2015 is still haunting the ruling party.
It was also learnt that the top agenda for the meeting was the call for the resignation of the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu, and the leadership of the National Assembly.
A senator-elect, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that Adamu’s resignation tops the agenda of the meeting.
He said, “There were serious concerns before we went into the election and many of us believe that Adamu should resign to assuage the feelings of the Christian community towards our party.
“The calculation then was that our Christian brothers and sisters would soften their hard stance against our party if we produce one of them as the National Chairman of the APC.
“There were, however, superior arguments that such arrangements could only be put in place during the party’s convention. It was also argued that it was not better to go into the election with a divided house.
“However, it was agreed that something urgent should be done about it immediately our presidential and vice presidential candidates emerged victorious at the poll.
“I will not be surprised if the National Chairman comes to the meeting tomorrow (today) with his resignation letter in his pocket.”
Some of the senators in town for the meeting were Senator Sani Musa (Niger East), Opeyemi Bamidele (Ekiti Central). It was gathered that Senator-elect, Pastrick Ndubueze (Imo-North), would fly into Abuja today.
In a telephone interview with our correspondent, Senator Sani Musa confirmed that he was in town and gearing up for the meeting.
