On Tuesday, June 9, President Muhammadu Buhari, was expected to show up at the International Conference Centre, to meet with the leadership of the All Progressives Congress and its lawmakers, however, he never showed up.
While series of speculations have been flying around as to why the President failed to attend, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, has revealed the real reason.
In an interview with Channels Television, Garba stated that the President was about to head out for the meeting when he was told that the inauguration of the senate had commenced.
He said: “The president was about setting out when television stations started showing the programme live; the process had begun, so there was no point going ahead.”
“The president wanted to attend the meeting in order to show support for the party but once the programme had begun, the point had been lost.” Shehu dismissed the notion that lawmakers who missed the election at the senate could be angry with the president.
“They didn’t choose to be absent, they chose to obey the party and show respect for the president. Fifty-one APC senators decided to answer the call of party and their president.”
