Buhari loyalists strategise against Saraki

Senators loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari are regrouping to fight what one of them called "selfish agenda of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his cohorts."

The initial rallying point for the senators was a move to stop the National Assembly from vetoing the president's refusal to assent on the newly amended electoral act.

However, an arrow-head of the group of senators, called Parliament Support Group (P.S.G)

The PSG is led by Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa, APC) who was recently removed as chairman of Northern Senators Forum.

The amendment to the law guiding elections including re-ordering election sequence, is widely seen as a move against Mr. Buhari.

In February, some senators staged a walk out when they could not stop the Senate from passing the bill into law.

The House of Representative later adopted similar changes to the law, before the two houses adopted a harmonised version.

However, Mr. Buhari wrote the two chambers of the National Assembly in March announcing his decision to withhold assent to the amended act.

But fearing that the National Assembly leadership may rally support of lawmakers to veto the president, some lawmakers are mobilising to block the veto.

An official of the PSG, who declined to be named as he was not authorised by his colleagues to speak, said the group has so far signed on 46 senators.

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