The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday declared that the party would take over the National Assembly leadership both in the Senate and House of Representatives before the end of March.
APC’s Interim Deputy National Secretary, Nasir El- Rufai who revealed this in Kaduna, said efforts to stop or block 11 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP defecting senators to APC by Senate President, David Mark, would not yield results.
Speaking with journalists after acquiring his APC membership card at registration unit 015 at the Yobe State Liaison Office on Katuru Road, Kaduna, El-Rufai said some lawmakers in the House of Representatives who defected to PDP on Tuesday had problems with their state governors.
El-Rufai stressed that the forthcoming APC national convention would ensure that only principled and trustworthy individuals are elected. He admitted that the Kaduna State chapter of the APC is enmeshed in leadership crisis, saying it would soon be resolved.
The former minister alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had concluded plans to write the Ekiti State governorship result before election, warning that such a plot would fail. El-Rufai said: “God willing, (in) the Senate and House of Representatives, before the end of March, there would be changes in the leadership. We are hoping that APC will form the leadership there.
“This is democracy and there is no way you will force somebody to do what he is not interested in. There are those who will be lured with money or positions, but we don’t have such a thing because we have no government, and so we cannot lure anybody to join APC with positions or money.
“Whoever wants money and materialism can join PDP. We have a different political ideology. There are those who will defect from PDP to APC and vice versa.
This is politics and it will continue to happen up till election time. Our appeal to masses is to keep their eyes on those people who have started showcasing their attitudes.”
The former minister of the Federal Capital Territory added: “We are aware that PDP is working to rig the election. In fact, they even planned to write the result in Ekiti State even before the election holds. We are working to see that it does not happen.
I will not disclose our strategy so that that the opposition will not know, but I assure you that we are not going to allow them to succeed.” El-Rufai added: “As you can see, the problem or power tussle in Kaduna has not affected the registration exercise in the state.
Source: National Mirror
