The invitation to the meeting was read at the Senate on Wednesday by the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege.
President Bola Tinubu has invited senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives to a meeting at the State House, Abuja.Notice of the meeting was conveyed in a letter addressed to the Senate and read by Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege, who presided over the plenary on Wednesday.
The agenda of the meeting was not indicated in the letter but is speculated to be in connection with the election of the leadership of the 10th National Assembly, which will be conducted on 13 June. He is also backing Tajudeen Abas from Kaduna State and Ben Kalu from Abia State for speaker and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives.But some of the aspirants in the two chambers have rejected the president’s choices and insisted that they will not withdraw from the race.At the Senate chamber, aspirants such as a former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari and the Senate Chief Whip, Orji Kalu, are forging a partnership to run against Messrs Akpabio and Jibrin.
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