Our correspondent
All appears not to be well in the camp of Senators Abdulaziz Yari, Orji Kalu and Osita Isunazo over who to finally support for the office of the Senate president, Straightnews online has gathered.
It was gathered that Kalu is threatening Yari’s supporters with a defection to the camp of the president.
Trouble is said to have started when the trio, who are yet to decide on whom to sponsor for the office of the President of the 10th Senate met Sunday night at a popular hotel (name withheld) outside the outskirts of Abuja, but could not finally decide who they would support.
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The correspondent gathered that after heated arguments among the trio and their sponsors, including a serving Presiding Officer of the Senate, (who has vowed not to toe the path of the President and National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressives Congress), those who spoke in support of the former Governor of Zamfara State outnumbered those who spoke in support of Kalu and Izunaso.
The anonymous source said ‘‘After the meeting, an enraged Kalu threatened to dump the group for the President’s choices, if the group does not rescind its decision not to support him for the office, since the party had long zoned the office to the South.’’
The source further stated that ‘‘He brought to the notice of Yari’s sponsors that it would be the height of religious insensitivity on the path of Yari to wanting to occupy the office the Senate President when the President and the Vice President are both Muslims.’’
It was also learnt that after very strong arguments for and against Yari’s ambition, which almost resulted into physical fisticuff, Kalu threatened to walk out of the meeting.
Sensing the implications of his walk-out and having threatened to dump the group, he was offered the position of the deputy Senate President and Izunaso, Chairman of Senate Appropriation Committee.
It was not clear if the Kalu and Izunazo accepted the offer. Sources at the meeting confided in our reporter that, “with the way things are going now in our camp, Kalu might dump the group because of their selfishness and insensitivity to national peace and unity,’’ it was learnt.
