A Lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, says the tussle in the National Assembly (NASS) in Nigeria is a result of personal ambitions clashing with group interest.

Speaking on Sunrise Daily on Monday, the legal practitioner perceived that he saw the NASS conflict heading nowhere.

Ogunye also observed that the Assembly was experiencing an intense power struggle that was purposed to enable those involved occupy positions.

“What is going on is not about thinking of doing the job of legislation and all the other things that legislators do, my thinking is (that it is) about how we occupy legislative offices and how we can fester our own nest,” the lawyer said.

“We are dealing with power mongers. They don’t care about defined lines of principles and how you have to maintain fidelity to a party. Now, all they are saying is that they are no longer loyal to their party, they are loyal to Nigeria.”

He said that he had expected that the legislative arm of government would allow a smooth transition based on the emergence of a new majority but “personal ambition now clashed with group interest, so we then saw a situation in which people who claim to be members of the same party would not subject themselves to the principles of internal party democracy.”

He stressed further that what has been seen as the All Progressives Congress, APC’s mishandling of the crisis was “a quintessential handling of conflicting interests within a political party”.

“If the members of your party or the members of your family have conflicting interests, how do you resolve that without being dictatorial?

“It is by calling them to order and saying ‘subject yourselves to a sham electoral process and let’s test the acceptability and popularity of each and everyone of you’, so that they will be bound by that decision.”

As the National Assembly resumes on Tuesday, July 28, he expressed worry that the crisis might not be resolved quickly although Nigerians had expected that the issues would have been resolved.

“There has been an escalation in the last few days and not after the Police released a report saying that the rules with which the election was conducted were forged”.

Ogunye reiterated that the Senate was in jeopardy including their leadership, stating that the Police report has rendered the election baseless.