APC CHAIRMAN DISTANCES SELF FROM SELECTION OF NASS PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

The All Progressives Congress, APC national chairman, Sen Abdullahi Adamu has distanced the party from the selection of principal officers of the National Assembly.

Speaking when he, alongside members of the APC national working committee (NWC) met with members of the Governor Hope Uzodinma led progressives governors forum (PGF), he claimed that he was not privy to the processes that led to the selection of the principal officers of both arms of the National Assembly.

The APC chairman said the announcement of the principal officers came to him as a surprise considering the fact that both the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives felicitated with him during the recently held Eid el-Kabir Sallah celebration and did not inform him of such agreement or arrangement.

You will recall that Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas had earlier today announced the emergence of new Principal Officers.

Addressing the Governors, the party’s national chairman, Adamu said the party had no input in the names of lawmakers making rounds as principal officers of the National Assembly.

According to him: “I had a courtesy call on Saturday from the President of the Senate and his Deputy. The following which was Sunday, I received the visit by the Speaker and his Deputy Speaker coming to me for Sallah’s homage.

“But i am just hearing as a rumour now from the online media that there have been some announcements in the Senate and House of Representatives. The national headquarters of the party of the NWC has not given any such information or communicated about the choice of offices.