Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) reserves the legal right to challenge defectors in court and ask for their seats to be declared vacant.
Mohammed, who said this on Saturday, believes that the defections were planned following the emergence of the Reformed-All Progressives Congress (R-APC).
The minister also accused the leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) of frustrating efforts to ensure unity within the party.
As stated by him, the emergence of principal officers of NASS was against the wishes of the party as the election in 2015 happened when most APC lawmakers were having a meeting with the President.
He added, “The leadership of the National Assembly destroyed party cohesion the moment they chose to go against the wishes of the party in the election of NASS principal officers.
“It is no longer a secret that the manner at which the Senate President emerged was not to the liking of the part as a whole.
“I still remember clearly that the major leaders of the party were waiting to meet at the National Conference Center in Abuja for Mr President when we heard that the Senate President had emerged.”
He, however, decried that the necessary working relationship between the executive and legislative arms of government was getting affected by what he described as the “lack of discipline within the NASS leadership”.