The All Progressives Congress (APC) finally got its wish on June 11, when it took control of both arms of the National Assembly. Unlike on June 6, 2015, when it lost its way in the Senate and House of Representatives through the election of Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as Senate President and Deputy, and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as Speaker of the House, the APC, this time, got its two choices – Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as Senate President and Speaker.

They were the party’s choices in 2015 but were outsmarted by the PDP-backed Saraki and Dogara. Also last week, the APC proved a point when Senator Ovie Omo-Agege defeated Ekweremadu for the Deputy Senate President seat. The Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase, was returned unopposed.

With the current set up, the APC is fully in control of the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary to a large extent, since the sacking of the erstwhile Chief Justice of the Federation, Walter Onnoghen and his replacement by Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed, a man picked by President Muhammadu Buhari. For the first time since it ousted the PDP in 2015, the APC now has its destinies fully in its hands.

Now, the APC would not be facing internal hostilities against its programmes and policies. National Chairman of the ruling party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, put it more succinctly last week, when he stated that the APC has no reason not to deliver on its electoral promises.

According to him, “Now, we can’t say we are being blocked by the parliament. Nigerians with their eyes open gave APC the executive. They also gave us overwhelming majority in the two arms of the National Assembly.