The APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, had said the party would waste no time in determining those who occupy principal offices of the National Assembly
Adamu who met with President Bola Tinubu at the presidential villa after the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly said, “What is now left for us, as a party, is to sit and determine the remaining members of each of these principal officers.
The source who did not want his name in print said the governing party is consulting widely to avoid a repeat of the opposition that mounted after the zoning of presiding officers of the National Assembly. It was gathered that the South West without a presiding officer in the House like North West and South East is not keen about the position as there are permutations for the Senate Leader to emerge from the zone which has the president.
For the North-East, a frontline aspirant for the Speakership position who withdrew at the eleventh hour, Muktar Betara , and the co-chairman of the Joint Task Force in the 10th Assembly, Usman Bello Kumo , whose group championed the campaign of Abbas/Kalu joint ticket, are nursing the ambition for House Leader.
Informed sources told LEADERSHIP that Betara who was the main challenger before stepping down for Abbas had opted to retain the position of chairman of the Appropriation Committee which he held in the 9th, but that does not seem possible.
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