The Northern Democratic Agenda (NDA) through its National President, Turaki Yakubu, has raised the alarm over the dangers of any further delay by the
leadership of the All Progressives Congress and President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to immediately work out a formula to occupy the positions of presiding officers of the 10th National Assembly to the appropriate geographical zones of the country.
The group working for the emergence of a former Akwa Ibom State governor and immediate-past minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, also drew attention of the leadership of the party to the tension currently building up in the South-South in the event the party ignores the zone in favour of South-East or North-West for the Senate Presidency on the ground of fears of instability and restiveness, stressing that “we are certainly sure that the volatility in the South-South as the...
The group explicitly maintained that those supporting other regions were protagonists of the nation’s unity and should never be given the opportunity to cause more troubles in the South-South and Nigeria in general. According to the statement, “we have listened to all the arguments and we want to put it straight away that our support for South-South and indeed Senator Akpabio comes on the heels of our study of the Nigerian perculiarity and the need to always give every zone a fair share of participation in the national politics of Nigeria.
MEDICAL CONSULTANTS REVEALED NATURAL AND PERMANENT CURE TO DIABETES & HIGH BLOOD SUGAR WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS... CLICK HERE“We are shocked that having produced the Senate Presidency for 8 years when the Presidency was in the South-West, the South-East still would lay claims to the number three office when the South-South hasn’t produced any since advent of democracy and now that the presidency has returned to the South-West.
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