The All Progressives Congress, APC, and its splinter group, Reformed All Progressives Congress, R-APC, were yesterday locked in a war of words over alleged plans by the former to induce each senator with N50 million to forcibly reconvene, with a view to unseating the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

Two Senate Committee Chairmen have taken a swipe at the Chairman, Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Abu Ibrahim, APC, Katsina South, who warned that the Senate will not witness peace if the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, fails to resign from his present position.

THE defection gale that further depopulated the hierarchy of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is set to upset the 2019 presidential permutations in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which was the major beneficiary of the losses by the ruling party.

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, buoyed by the influx of bigwig politicians into its ranks, this week, were at each others’ throats last night, over fears that moves were afoot to impeach the current leadership of the National Assembly.

The Federal Government in its first formal response to the gale of defections from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday described the exit of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, as a good riddance that would remove obstacles to the delivery of good governance.

President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki yesterday announced his decision to leave the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

—Confusion stirred in Benue State, yesterday, after eight of the 30 members of the House of Assembly protected by heavily armed security operatives barricaded other members, sat in session and raised an impeachment notice against Governor Samuel Ortom.

Indications emerged yesterday that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is moving against loyalists of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki in government as Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, yesterday directed the Senate President’s loyalists in the various agencies of the Federal Government to resign from office or be sacked.

BY the end of the 2018 fiscal year, the Federal Government of Nigeria would have spent six trillion naira on Defence in 132 months, if budget appropriations since 2008 are anything to go by.

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THE Presidency yesterday said that it has met and discussed with a large number of senators and members of the House of Representatives who dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and other opposition political parties, noting that they had resolved to work for the actualization of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid.

The Muhammadu Buhari 2019 Campaign, yesterday, gave reasons  defections by several National Assembly members will not harm the electoral prospects of the President, saying that the legislators, who left the All Progressives Congress, APC, were laggards who lost out to internal political dynamics.

An alleged plot to remove the two presiding officers of the Senate, yesterday, could not stop the defection of 14 senators from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on a day of high drama that was heralded by the police siege to the homes of the two presiding officers.

NATIONAL Chairman of  All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, threatened to suspend the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, from the party, if he failed to obey the orders of the party.

The Presidency, working in concert with Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has moved to break the ranks of the Reformed All Progressives Congress, R-APC.