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Sahara Reporters is reporting the new development ...
A truce meeting called on Monday by the leadership of the All 
Progressives Congress (APC) has been boycotted by Senator Bukola Saraki,
 one of the party’s top contenders for the presidency of the Senate.
Senator Saraki boycotted the meeting after reportedly telling party 
leaders that as a former governor he could not attend a meeting summoned
 by a ‘mere commissioner’, referring to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, whose 
previous public office was as Commissioner of Justice in Lagos State. 
Saraki then became a Senator, while Osinbajo is now the Vice President.
Following Saraki’s snub, Prof. Osinbajo didn’t bother
 to attend the meeting, but the party met with its elected lawmakers, 
with some of Saraki’s earlier supporters joining the meeting.
Sources at the meeting told SaharaReporters that the leaders of the 
National Working Committee of the APC reaffirmed their support for 
candidates chosen during Saturday’s mock primaries of the party.
The Senate and the House of Representatives are expected to be 
inaugurated tomorrow.  President Muhammad Buhari has given his blessing 
and dispatched a letter to the Clerk of the National Assembly asking to 
declare the two chambers inaugurated.  Buhari is expected to return to 
Abuja on Tuesday evening, according presidency sources.
APC is expected to hold a final meeting tonight to prepare for the 
elections of its principal officers of the National Assembly tomorrow.
 
 
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