How G-5 Govs, Atiku Stopped Lawan-thisday

Details have emerged on how former Vice-
President Atiku Abubakar and the five
governors who in late 2013 defected to the All
Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) worked against the
emergence of Senator Ahmad Lawan as Senate
President.

THISDAY gathered that Atiku and the five
governors were uncomfortable with the rising
touted political wizadry of APC national leader,
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and decided to
“cut him to size.”
Two of the former governors - Rabi’u Musa
Kwakwanso and Aliyu Wammako (Kano and
Sokoto States) were recently elected into the
Senate. Kwara State Governor, Ahmed
Abdulfatah, is the political protégé of the new
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
They reportedly used their influence to stop
Lawan believed to be Tinubu’s candidate.
THISDAY gathered that Wammako had also
used his successor, the new governor of Sokoto
State, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, the immediate
past Speaker of the House of Representatives,
to reach out to returning House members to
support Hon. Yakubu Dogara in emerging the
House of Representatives Speaker.
Few hours after the APC national leadership
rejected the emergence of Saraki and Dogara
as Senate President and Speaker respectively,
Atiku issued a statement congratulating the
duo.
“Irrespective of the political mix through which
the presiding officers emerged,...the eighth
National Assembly should never lose focus of
its role as a partner in progress with the other
arms of government, especially the executive
arm,” the former vice-pesident, in apparent
reaction to the APC said threat to sanction the
two principal officers.. Source:

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