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President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed that all the members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, should stop fighting Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Kabiru Marafa, made this disclosure, on Sunday.

Recall, that the Senator at the inception of the 8th Senate, was the leader of the Unity Forum, that was then in fights with, and opposing Senator Bukola Saraki, over his emergence as the Senate President, contrary to the arrangement and dictates of the APC.

Marafa, who was later made the Chairman of the Petroleum Committee, said he had nothing personal against the Senate President, at the height of their crisis.

“I did not fight Bukola Saraki, because he is Saraki; I fought because my party said I should fight, and when my party said I should stop, I stopped. The decision to end all these hostilities that brought the two sides (Unity Forum and Like Minds) together, was taken by APC and President Buhari himself.

“It was not me or anybody; the party said; ‘my children, come together, this one has won the Senate Presidency; you, this side, give them the Senate Leader and Deputy Senate Leader, and it was done.’

“Was that not what happened? Now, you have formed Committees, give them some Committees; is that not what happened? I don’t know why Nigerians forget things easily. It was the party and President Buhari that called for ceasefire”, he said.

Post-Nigeria recalled, that Marafa refused to accept the Chairmanship position of the earlier Committee given to him by the Senate President, in 2015, and in fact, refused to recognize any of the 65 Standing Committees of the Senate, constituted then, on account of antagonism of the Senate Unity Forum, to which he belonged, against the leadership of the 8th Senate under Saraki .

However, he dramatically changed his disposition to the Senate leadership, headed by Saraki, from that of negativism to that of positivism, on Thursday, July 21, 2016, when he was made Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources  (Downstream).


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