The National Assembly has had eight Senate Presidents so far in the Fourth Republic. The first five of them were from the South-east region.
The 2023 transition process in Nigeria will be concluded with the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly and the election of the presiding officers of the two chambers. The inauguration has been scheduled for 5 June, a week after the swearing-in of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on 29 May.
The North-central produced the next two Senate Presidents, who shared the next two assemblies between 2007 and 2019. They are David Mark from Benue State who presided from 2007 to 2015, and Bukola Saraki from Kwara State who served from 2015 to 2019. Unlike in the preceding two assemblies , the APC has a slimmer majority in the incoming 10th Senate with 59 members. The PDP has 29 members, the Labour Party has six members, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party and the Social Democratic Party have two members each. The All Progressives Grand Alliance and Young Peoples Progressive Party complete the 109-member Senate with one member each.
In a video circulated on the internet by African Independent Television , Mr Ganduje also said the APC governors decided to support Mr Akpabio. The video showed Mr Ganduje and some of his governor colleagues, including Ben Ayade of Cross River State, in a meeting with some individuals.
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