Former governor of Akwa Ibom State and the choice of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for President of the 10th Senate, Godswill Akpabio, will tomorrow
However, Betara and Gagdi publicly withdrew from the race after a meeting with Vice President Kassim Shettima. The chief of staff to the president and former speaker, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, was also present at the meeting.
Reacting to the development, the Tajudeen Abbas/Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu Joint Task Campaign Office stated that the aspirants had formally stepped down for Abbas, thereby dismantling the Group 7 aspirants who were initially opposed to his candidacy. A source said, “The last 72 hours are very crucial and from what we are seeing, a lot of things are changing and many things have actually changed. Some are pleasant while some are so painful.”Meanwhile, a lawmaker-elect, who is part of Yari’s campaign, has alleged plots to stop the contender from accessing the chamber during the National Assembly inauguration on Tuesday.
“They are also frantically reaching out to individual senators-elect who are supporting Yari to pull out. The carrot and stick approach is being used to get the senators to pull out from Yari’s camp and back Akpabio.” The northern groups also alleged that former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, and some of his strong supporters were being threatened with arrest in order to intimidate him to back out of the contest for insisting on due process.
“This plot, as widely speculated, involves the introduction of a suspicious electronic voting system in the process meant to track the pattern of voting in the National Assembly.” The Ijaw leader made the call when senators-elect and members of the Stability Group paid him a birthday visit at his residence in Abuja and to also seek his blessings for the aspiration of Senator Akpabio as the president of the 10th Senate as part of consultations of critical stakeholders by the group.
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