The unending feud between Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senator Kabiru Marafa (All Progressives’ Congress, Zamfara) may have escalated to the House of Representatives, as some memebers of the House of Representatives, who are former members of the defunct Loyalists’ Group in the House, have lashed back at their colleagues who earlier condemned Marafa for allegedly bringing the National Assembly to disrepute by his recent utterances.

About 11 members of the House [believed to be loyal to the Saraki] and, apparently, Speaker Yakubu Dogara had, few days ago, attacked Marafa, whose outbursts, they said, cast aspersions on the sanctity of the Legislature.

"It is, indeed, regrettable that eight months after the contest for leadership in the Senate ended, Marafa and his group have remained in electioneering mode," they said in a statement.

However, in a statement issued yesterday and made available to LEADERSHIP, another group of lawmakers in the House countered their colleagues, telling them to "steer clear" of Saraki's internal affairs.

The group said "It must be made clear to the legislators (who are mostly new members) that the two Houses of the National Assembly are independent and separate and, by getting involved in the internal crisis of the Senate, indicate that they are busybodies and interlopers who know nothing about the running of a bi-cameral legislature.

"We advise our colleagues to mind their own business and face the peoples' work which they were elected for." Comprising mostly pro-Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila loyalists, the group threw its weight behind Senator Marafa, adding that the budget controversy was manipulated to settle political scores.