The group, which canvassed for the emergence of Senator Ahmad Lawan as President of the Senate, said that it would only withdraw it court cases challenging the election of the presiding officers of the Senate, if the party leaders directed them to do so.
The forum said that at present the group had decided to pursue the court cases to their logical conclusion.
They insisted that Bukola Saraki and his group must show remorse, before the crisis could be resolved.
The comments of the group came on the heels of the peace moves by the Senator Saraki and his group.
Saraki’s loyalists, including the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, Adamu Aliero and Danjuma Goje, were reported to have begged Buhari, who had been shunning Saraki since the crisis in the upper chamber of the National Assembly started.
But some of the SUF members, who spoke with PUNCH on Sunday, said there was no way peace would be achieved if Saraki failed to respect party supremacy by announcing senators Ahmad Lawan, George Akume, Sola Adeyeye and Abu Ibrahim as principal officers.
The spokesperson for the SUF, Senator Kabir Marafa, said that his group would defend the party discipline and its supremacy over all members of the APC in the upper chamber at all times.
He also explained that the Saraki-led Senate went against both the party’s directive and the rule of ranking in the announcement of the principal officers who were elected by the zonal caucuses.
He said, “Our position has not changed. Those who were appointed as principal officers must vacate their seats first because their appointments contradicted the Senate rule and the position of the party which is supreme.
“The court should determine whether or not the management of the National Assembly was right to have used the Senate Standing Order 2015 which was not amended through due process.”
Marafa, however, said that his colleagues would abide by the directive of Buhari and other leaders of the party in case the Saraki camp showed remorse and pledged to respect the party.
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