President-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, inspected his official residence before his May 29 official inauguration as President.This came as threats to resort to zoning by aspirants desperate for leadership positions in the 10th National Assembly trouble the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), prompting a meeting of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, and Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, with the Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, and some members of the National Working Committee (NWC).
President-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, inspected his official residence before his May 29 official inauguration as President.
The activities of some desperate aspirants seeking election as presiding officers, however, may jeopardise the process.The presence of Senators Godswill Akpabio, Barau Jibrin, Opeyemi Bamidele, Solomon Adeola, Tokunbo Abiru and Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, around the President-elect, on his return to Nigeria, sent disturbing signals to some stakeholders.
The source said: “It was at that stage that Jibrin, who is contesting the Senate President position, came outside the meeting to discuss with Senators Bamidele and Adeola. Jibrin was told by his colleagues to take things easy as they could help him prevail on Tinubu. The source said: “Tinubu had earlier put a call across to Lawan, to see him on the matter and it was reliably gathered that the Senate President told the President-elect that it would be difficult to market an Akpabio, who allegedly denigrated the 8th Senate by forcing his way to be the Minority Leader as a first timer, and also accused National Assembly members of receiving huge amounts of money from the Niger Delta Development Commission to approve the agency’s budget.
They advocated democratic principles of separation of powers, checks and balances, and underscored the need to allow members-elect exercise their franchise without interference.
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