The march by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to uproot the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015 touched base yesterday at the premises of the House of Representatives with the assertion by the party's National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, that the ruling party will soon lose control of the executive and legislative arms of government.

Akande, along with the southern leader of the party, Bola Tinubu and governors of Imo, Oyo, Osun, Nassarawa, Kwara, Lagos and Kano State, disclosed this at a meeting with the APC caucus in the House.

The APC assembly which gathered in the House before travelling to Yola where they had a meeting with the former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, converged to give support to the legislators in the lower chamber in the face of the battle for supremacy between the PDP and the APC in the National Assembly,

Just as the APC caucus was assembling upstairs, downstairs the PDP caucus too was in a similar meeting which details were not clear as journalists were not invited for coverage. But a source told THISDAY that both meetings were convened to strategise on how to confront the crucial debate of the 2014 budget by the House today.

According to Akande, "We are dealing with a very desperate government but we are anxious to be with you. What you have done is commendable in the face of a barbaric government."

He said the party was looking up to the legislators to help the country stabilise as "the government does not know the difference between stability and politics of hatred." Observing that while the party was busy battling the federal government in a rough way in the country's political terrain, "we expect the legislators to teach the federal government civilisation."

In his speech, Tinubu who pleaded with the lawmakers not to let the party down, said the party's registration exercise which would start soon, will be fair and open.

He appealed to them to jettison their selfish interests and look at the interests of Nigerians. "Don't look at the problems but offer hope by trying to rescue Nigeria. If you are comfortable and your neighbour or your brother is not, you have danger around," Tinubu observed. Giving specific kudos to the legislators from Kano who refused to dump the APC for PDP as their former leader, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau did, Tinubu also applauded the legislators from Bauchi, Kaduna, Kwara, Akwa Ibom and Rivers State, assuring them that the party "won't let you down in the face of all odds."

Tinubu then prayed that they would not yield to corruption of power and the temptations hovering around them to dump their party

Other speakers at the occasion which kicked off at about 9:06p.m., were Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, Governors Rochas Okorocha, Tanko Almakura, Abdulfatah Ahmed, Abiola Ajimobi, Ibikunle Amosun, Babatunde Fashola, Rauf Aregbesola and the deputy governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.

All of them identified efforts by the PDP to 'buy' the legislators and urge them to be steadfast and resist the tantalising offers dangled before them, promising to augment and support those who fail in the course of the struggle.