APC PAID WITH THEIR OWN SIDE OF THE COIN
Abuja - Senator Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West)
on Wednesday said the party lost Deputy Senate Presidency to PDP because many
of its senators were absent from Tuesday's inauguration.
Melaye, who briefed newsmen in Abuja, said
all the APC senators present at the inauguration voted for the APC contestant,
Senator Ali Ndume, but lost because many APC senators were absent.
"Those that made APC to lose the Deputy
Senate Presidency yesterday were those who stayed away from the chamber.
"If they had come, we would have won, we
stood by our party, we nominated Senator Ali Ndume, and the man who seconded
the motion is a Senator from Kwara."
Lagos - The All Progressives Congress (APC)
Rivers State Chapter has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene amid
reports the People’s Democratic Party-led House of Assembly planned to
dismantle the elected Local Governments.
Publicity Secretary, Chris Finebone, said APC
had credible information the Rivers
State House of Assembly has perfected plans to kick-start the process by moving
and adopting a motion on the floor of the House empowering Governor Nyesom Wike
to dissolve the recently duly elected councils.
“The APC would like to call on the President
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian
Armed Forces, the Heads of the various security agencies and the general public
to hold the Nyesom Wike-led Rivers State Government responsible for any threat
to law and order in Rivers State that may result from the reckless and illegal
decision to do away with the duly-elected 23 Local Government Councils in the
State in order to replace same with his hand-picked cronies as Care-taker
Committees.”