Goje, Ndume May Defile APC Directive On Senate Presidency, Lobby Opposition Party For Support

Danjuma Goje, former Gombe State Governor may throw his hat in the ring as the contest for the Senate presidency reach a high pitch against the dictate and wish of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) for a straight coronation on its anointed candidate.

The ruling APC has since winning majority seats in the parliament anointed the present senate leader, Ahmad Lawan as its preferred candidate for the position of Senate president.
However, the ruling party seems not to have been able to achieve consensus among its rank both Goje and Ali Ndume have since indicated interest in the position and are have shown willingness to defile the instruction of the party leadership.
Sources close to Goje said the senator may officially announce his intention to vie for the position shortly after the passage of the 2019 budget next week.
Goje, who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, is scheduled to defend the committee’s report submitted last week on the Budget Bill next Tuesday.
A close ally to the lawmaker, who is also an APC Senator from the North, disclosed in an interview that processing the National Budget has been Goje’s major preoccupation and as such he does not want to combine his work with his aspiration.
Also yesterday at a press conference in Abuja, Northeast APC youth wing noted that the APC under the leadership of Adams Oshiohmole had caused the party so much damage because of his vested personal interests.
They argued that the last straw that would break the camel’s back is Oshiohmole’s desperation to impose leaders on the Ninth National Assembly.
Secretary of the group, Abubakar Maigari, at a media briefing in Abuja, pointed out that the threat by Oshiomhole and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu to send away members of the National Assembly, who opposed the imposition agenda, was appalling.
The APC youths noted that Tinubu’s and Oshiomhole’s leadership style has created unmanageable confusion and eventual loss of some states to the opposition in the 2019 gubernatorial and Assembly elections.
“It is irreconcilable that Tinubu who orchestrated the removal of a winning team led by John Odigie-Oyegun and foisted Oshiomhole on the party, is Oshiohmole’s alter-ego and partner in destroying the APC.
“Several members of APC have been lost to the opposition since Oshiomhole became APC National Chairman on June 23, 2018, yet the looming Ninth National Assembly leadership election crisis may threaten the party’s corporate existence.
They added that barely a month after Oshiomhole assume chairmanship of APC, 15 senators and 37 House of Representatives members defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, just as Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara followed suit afterwards.
“Ndume and Omo-Agege were suspended for 90 legislative days, while defending APC and Buhari administration policy, yet Oshiomhole wants those who have been partners with Senate leadership in sabotaging Buhari’s government to be rewarded,” the group added.