Not withstanding the famous eid-el-fitr prayers together on Friday July 17, President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President, Bukola Saraki are still not on talking terms.
It's no longer news that the relationship between the country’s number one and three citizens has remained cold following the emergence of Mr Saraki as senate president and the zoning of principal officers in the senate against the leadership of the APC.
According to reports, both the president and Saraki have not exchange phone calls or had private meetings despite Saraki’s several attempts to have one-on-one dialogue with President Buhari.
President Buhari has reportedly vowed to punish Saraki for his “act of betrayal” , the newspaper said.
Sources quoted in the report said “the relationship has grown colder and the coming weeks promise to be very tense between the two men”.
It would be recalled that Saraki who defected from the PDP was the co-coordinator for the fund-raising efforts for Buhari’s 2015 presidential election and was recently spotted in a widely publicised photograph, sitting next to Buhari at the praying ground in Abuja.
Meanwhile, after shifting the resumption date from July 21, the national assembly is expected to resume on July 28 as many Nigerians believe the crisis would have been settled.
It would be recalled that the peace committee chaired by Aminu Tambuwal, the governor of Sokoto, failed to resolve the leadership tussle in the caucus of the APC at the House of Representatives.