THE All Progressives Congress, APC, senators, on the platform of Unity Forum, has dismissed insinuations on the use of primary election to pick the Senate President for the next dispensation, saying it was rallying round Senators Lawan Ahmad and George Akume as Senate president and deputy Senate president respectively.

The forum, in a statement signed by Senator Robert Ajayi (South-West); Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim (North-East); Senator Barnabas Gemade (North Central) and Senator Abu Ibrahim (North-West), said the use of primary to pick the Senate president was nowhere embedded in the party structure.

The forum, which noted that the insinuations gave the impression that APC was a party of desperate, indiscplined and selfish people, urged the public to disregard any such information.

The statement read:  “Given the conflicting media accounts surrounding the issue of the prospective candidate for the Senate presidency from the APC, we of the Unity Forum are constrained to make this clarification.

“This response has become necessary because we do not want to portray our party as a collection of desperate, indispline and selfish people. Rather, we believe that party preservation and the overall interest of the party should be paramount at this point.

“For the records, there was no time before the retreat, during the retreat or after the retreat where and when the issue of a primary election to pick the Senate President was tabled or agreed upon.

“Nowhere in the party leadership structure can we find the mandate for the conduct of any election with regard to the emergence of the Senate Presidency candidate. Any contrary information out there in the social or any kind of media is false, self-serving and intended to mislead the public.”