From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, met behind closed door with former presiding officers of the National Assembly in what appears to be a move to end the frosty executive-legislature relationship.
Those at the meeting, which took place inside the president’s office, were former Senate presidents, David Mark and Ken Nnamani as well as former Speaker of the House of Representatives and governor of Katsina state, Aminu Masari.
Also at the meeting was the Senior Special Assistant to the president on National Assembly matters, Ita Enang.
Mark, who was making his first ever open visit to the Presidential Villa since the inception of the present administration, arrived alone at about 2.55pm and walked straight to the venue of the meeting where Masari and Nnamani were already waiting.
Mark left the president’s office at about 3.35pm but declined to speak with State House correspondents.
The others left much later through the presidential gate, away from the preying eyes of the media.
Sources told Daily Sun that the former presiding officers of the National Assembly, at the meeting, pleaded with President Buhari to find a way of ending the face-off with Saraki and Ekweremadu.
According to them, the source said, the Presidency-Senate frosty relationship is heating up the polity and there is urgent need to bring it to an end.
The former National Assembly officers were said to have particularly  urged the president to take measures to douse the tension, as political crisis in the midst of economic crisis would leace the country in very bad state.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, are presently being prosecuted for allegedly forging the senate rules with which they were elected into office.
Both of them have denied the charges against them and blamed the presidency for their travails.
The situation has led to a frosty relationship between the two arms of government with elements in the senate allegedly threatening to initiate impeachment process against President Buhari.
Nnamani was president of the senate from 2005 to 2007. ‎
Mark, who is also a retired army Brigadier General was president of the senate from 2007 to 2015.
Masari was the speaker of the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007.
Ita-Enang represented the Itu and Ibiono Ibom Federal Constituency of Akwa Ibom State in the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2011, he was Chairman Rules and Business in the Senate from 2011-2015.