'APC begins review of zoning arrangements for National Assembly leadership positions amidst protests. Party is set to compensate North-central, while Tinubu stands in queue with Akpabio. Read more on THISDAY.
*Yari writes senators-elect, insists on contesting for Senate presidencyFollowing the protests over the zoning of the National Assembly leadership positions by the All Progressives Congress , which ceded two slots to the North-west geopolitical zone and none to the North-central, the party may kick off the process of reviewing the zoning arrangements this week, THISDAY has learnt.
At a meeting with some of the aggrieved aspirants last Thursday, the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, admitted that the leadership of the party did not consult sufficiently before arriving at its position on zoning and promised that the party would reconsider its position. Some of the aspirants told THISDAY that Adamu assured them at separate meetings held with him that the process of reviewing the zoning arrangement would kick off this week.
“So, the leaders of the party are looking into the position allocated to the South-east and the fact that the North-central was totally excluded. He said: “I am not sure that the zoning arrangements announced by the APC are working. As opposition senators-elect, what we had agreed upon is that we would study their characters and qualifications before we cast our votes. APC cannot choose presiding officers for us,” he added.
The crisis over the zoning arrangements got to a peak when the trio of Senators Orji Uzor Kalu ; Sani Musa and Abdulaziz Yari stormed the national secretariat of the APC and rejected the zoning arrangements. The duo made the request yesterday when the governor hosted them and the members of the Joint Task Team of the House in their maiden consultative engagement to seek bipartisan support from the governors
Sanwo-Olu, who said the unity of the country was more important than the aspirants’ ambition, urged Abbas and Kalu not to take any member-elect for granted.
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