Buhari Will Interven In NASS Crisis

Buhari Will Interven In NASS Crisis Only  If… – Aide

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, says President Muhammadu Buhari will not intervene in the leadership crisis currently rocking the National Assembly until the All Progressives Congress, APC, state governors ask him to do so.

Shehu said this on Thursday while featuring on Sunrise Daily, a programme of ChannelsTV. He explained that Buhari would only step into the matter at the point when the APC state governors tell him that the problem is too big for them to handle. Shehu said, “When the governors met with the President, they told him that ‘we are the leaders in our states and we have influence over all of these senators.

They come from our places and from us and we can handle it.’ “The President will step into the crisis at the point when the governors say they can no longer fix it.” Shehu also stated that should Buhari interfere in the matter, he would not do that to the level of imposing leaders on the lawmakers”.

The President has a responsibility to the party, the President has a responsibility to the nation and as far as we are looking at the situation it has not gotten out of control. It is still within manageable parameters, it is a little storm we will overcome and Nigerians better get used to it,” he added.

Reacting to a statement credited to the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, that Buhari is not the leader of the party, Shehu said, “Does it need to be said? I don’t think it needs to be said that the President is the leader of his party. There’s no question about it.”