As the crisis over the leadership of the 10th National Assembly festers, panic has gripped Senators in the camp of former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator
While the party endorsed Akpabio from South-South for Senate president, Senator Jubrin Barau was picked from North West for deputy Senate president.
Our source added that Tinubu may have heeded the advice and might have tactically withdrawn his support for Akpabio. “We have seen the follies remaining in this camp. It will not work. We have fixed a meeting for Thursday where we are going to chart our next line of action,” a senator from one of the states in the South West confided in our correspondent.
“They are alleging that some corrupt activities took place under his watch at the NDDC but they did not say he misappropriated funds as governor or as Minister.“They also accused him of not constituting the board of the NDDC but that also was not his job. The president of the country is saddled with such responsibility.”
A source knowledgeable about the latter meeting said the party has been thrown into confusion because of the zoning arrangement which was sold to the president. “Now, they are trying to paint those who are standing their ground as anti-party or anti-Tinubu people. That’s not the best approach. According to him, the leadership of the governing party is subtly working against the zoning arrangement recently adopted, with Adamu operating as a factional leader.
In a statement he issued yesterday, the national vice chairman alleged that Adamu is strongly opposed to the zoning formula announced by the party’s National Working Committee after getting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s nod. The former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum warned that the governing APC is ‘choking’ under Adamu and the national secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, who he said have blocked all party organs, apart from NWC, from meeting.
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