Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including the leadership of the party and other bigwigs, are at loggerheads over zoning of principal offices
In the North West, two Senators, Jubrin Barau and former Zamfara State governor, Abdul Aziz Yari , are not leaving anything to chance in their bid to become Senate president.
For Speakership of the House, it was gathered that the resolve of one of the aspirants, Betara, to defy zoning appears to have elicited the anger of vice-president-elect, Kashim Shetima and the Borno state governor, Zulum.
Meanwhile, a coalition of stakeholders of the APC under the aegis of APC Integrity Caucus in the National Assembly and the business community yesterday insisted that the North West must produce the next Senate president. Spokesperson of the AIC, Hon Musa Ahmed Jauro Dutse, who addressed the press on behalf the group, said the opposition parties were crying more than the bereaved on zoning just to mislead the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and other leaders of the APC into jettisoning the North West for them to overrun.
The integrity group insisted that since the South West has taken the presidency and North East gas the vice presidency, it was only fair to allow the North West take the Senate presidency. The APC national vice chairman yesterday called on APC governors, stakeholders and all the party members to prevail on all the aspiring Muslim Senator-elects to drop their ambitions.
“At a time when opposition political parties are practically taken over by combinations of religious bigots and political opportunists who will go to any length to manufacture lies aimed at manipulating gullible citizens to support them, we can’t allow the contest for leadership of the 10th National Assembly to continue unregulated.
He said, “Let me say that there are three perspectives to this issue, the first is the constitution; the second is history, the third is precedent and if you permit me, let me read directly from the constitution because I want to put it verbatim. Section 14 of the 1999 constitution says in sub section 1 “the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a state based on the principle of democracy and social justice.
He said, “It may consume us. The constitution is very, very clear. It must be inclusive. Every section, ethnic, religious, must be accommodated in the governance of this country, in the opportunities and resources of this country.” Ndoma-Egba appealed to the aspirants to the juicy positions from the North to withdraw their ambitions and make the necessary sacrifices for the unity of the country.Meanwhile, Senator-elect for Imo West Senatorial district, Osita Izunaso, has started consultations to contest the Senate presidency.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Senator Isunazo said it would be proper for the APC stakeholders to consider the South East which had been marginalised and denied a sense of belonging. He further noted that based on his experience as former member of the House of Representatives and the Red Chamber, and as former staff of the National Assembly, as well as former member of the APC National Working Committee, he is in the best position to promote harmonious working relationship between the executive, legislature and the APC national secretariat.
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