The Senate leadership crisis re-echoed on Saturday, as a member of the North East caucus in the National Assembly, Senator Hamma Isa Musa, representing Bauchi Central, declared that the choice of Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate Majority leader failed because he never intimated his colleagues in the All Progressives Congress (APC) of his interest in becoming the Majority Leader ‎of the Senate, after losing the Senate Presidency to Bukola Saraki.

In an interview he granted in Abuja, ‎Misau said that the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, should not be blamed for the inability of Lawan to emerge as majority leader of the Eighth Senate as proposed by the leadership of the APC.

He explained that rather than blame Saraki, members of the Northeast caucus of the APC in the Senate, who overwhelmingly voted against the decision and rather preferred Senator Ali Ndume as the leader, should be blamed.

The lawmaker added that out of the 11 Senators, who are members of the caucus, eight voted for Ndume, while three voted for Lawan and that since politics is a game of numbers, the candidate with majority of the Senators emerged as leader.