The Nigeria Voters Assembly (VOTAS) has tasked the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to handle with caution the on-going rumblings among its members in the National Assembly without compromising party supremacy. In a press release signed by its President, Comrade Mashood Erubami, copies of which were made available to journalists in Ibadan on Thursday, VOTAS lamented that Nigerians who hold a long list of expectations are now confused about which masters script the Senate President is playing and whether the party instructions meant anything to him or he wants to continue to celebrate dissidents.

While noting with concern that no merger has succeeded from political history of the country, the pro-democracy group remarked that it therefore behoves on the APC leadership to carefully manage the successful APC merger and the party's victory at the general elections, "so as not to allow strange bed fellows that strayed into the party to stray back, like they came in."

The group said "If the recalcitrant party members who take delight in sub-merging their party's instruction on the platform of opportunism are allowed to stray out, it may rock the boat of unity among the merging parties and advertently put power back into the hands of the PDP disguising under a new name at an unexpected time."

Erubami insisted that it was unthinkable that the Senate will fail again last Tuesday to elect its remaining principal officers given the obvious indiscipline that permeated the first attempt to elect leaders in the Senate and all attempts made by the party to move on in the interest of peace.