Information reaching The Eagle Online on Monday afternoon has it that the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has summoned a meeting of the National Assembly members elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.
The meeting, it was gathered, was to resolve the crisis between the leaders of the APC and the legislators over the emergence of leaders for the National Assembly.
The election of principal officers for both the Senate and the House of Representatives is expected to take place immediately after the inauguration of the Assembly on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, based on the differences between the leadership of the APC and some of the legislators, those loyal to Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who is the eyeing the position of the speaker of the House of Representatives, have decided to boycott the meeting.
Information reaching The Eagle Online has it that the legislators, who have been meeting all day decided to boycott the meeting because they feel it will not change the position of the leadership of the party on the issue.
The leadership of the party had over the weekend called a meeting of the legislators where primaries was held for the emergence of consensus candidates for the positions of the Senate president and speaker of the House of Representatives.
While Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila emerged as the candidate for the position of speaker, Senator Ahmad Lawan was selected for the Senate presidency.
This led to a walkout by the Dogara-led group.
Dogara said he was ambushed by the leadership of the party and a candidate for the Senate presidency, Senator Bukola Saraki, faulted the holding of primaries.
As a result of this, the Dogara-led group said on Monday it would boycott the meeting with Osinbajo.
The thinking was that since a National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, influenced the emergence of Gbajabiamila, Osinbajo can only follow the same path.
This is because Osinbajo is largely seen as a product of the Tinubu political school and he would thus not want to disagree with his godfather.
As at press time, there was still tension within the party as there are fears the lawmakers elected on the platform of the party would align with those of the Peoples Democratic Party to scuttle the plot of the party to take the major positions in the National Assembly.