In a move to address the frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the impasse on election sequence for 2019, the National Working Committee of All Progressives Congress yesterday met with Senate caucus to mend fences.
The party’s NWC, led by the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun at the meeting which lasted for two and half hours, resolved to constitute an all encompassing team to look into the diff erences between the two arms of government.
Membership of the peace team, according to the Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan (APC, Yobe North) at a media briefing, would be drawn from the executive, legislature, the state governors and the party secretariat.
He specifically disclosed that the team was charged with the responsibility of reducing the level of misunderstanding among members of the party across board.
He said it was pertinent for the team to be raised to look into disagreements at different levels of the party in other not to allow such disagreements cause clog in the wheel of progress ahead of the 2019 general elections.
According to him, discussions at the meeting centred around so many issues among which was how to forestall crisis envisaged from the reordered sequence of elections adopted by both chambers of the National Assembly in the Electoral Act amendment Bill vetoed by the President.
He said: “The purpose of the meeting was to discuss happenings in the party across the country, across all levels of government.
“Senators took turn to express the way out of some of the issues bedeviling the party and I believe that it was a worthwhile, very frank discussion.
“The party will soon constitute a team that will comprise of the executive, the legislature, the party itself and representatives from our governors and we have 24 of them.