PROF. SOLA ADEYEYE: The senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District at the Senate, Prof. Olusola Adeyeye has given reasons for his absence at a meeting of all APC senators with President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Prof. Sola Adeyeye said the notice for the meeting got to him late.
Mr Buhari met with the APC senators Wednesday evening, after an exodus from the ruling party hit the Senate on Tuesday.
Fourteen senators decamped from the APC on Tuesday with thirteen of them moving to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
On Wednesday, 39 senators met with President Buhari to pay allegiance to him. Mr Adeyeye was, however, not at the meeting.
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In a Facebook post Thursday evening, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, a professor, said he was at the University of Ibadan College of Medicine on Wednesday to deliver a public lecture when he got invitation for the meeting.
He said the notice got to him only “around 7pmâ€.
He said the university event was “scheduled for over five monthsâ€.
Prof. Adeyeye said “it was logistically impossible for me to head to Abuja†at the time he learnt of the meeting.
“My colleagues of the APC caucus were fully aware of my engagement at Ibadan. I also sent an apology to the President pertaining to my absence.
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“For the avoidance of any doubts, I remain a firm member of the APC. I have never partaken of any formal or informal meeting with the r-APC,†he wrote.
Senators Sola Akanbi and Tejuoso have since made a U-turn to APC after the Senate President, Bukola Saraki announced their names with others who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) from APC.
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