Ninth Assembly: A case for Southeast
that President Muhammadu Buhari won; clouds of crisis hover over it as the jockeying for the principal positions in theNational Assembly begins.
But while the lawmakers are lining up themselves for the various leadership positions in thelegislature, the APC, which this time around is expected to play a crucial role on who getswhat, unlike in the 2015 race, is playing it close to its chest. Saraki, a two-term governor of Kwara State under PDP and former chairman, NigerianGovernor Forum, tapped into his PDP root to beat APC leaders at their own game ofintrigues. As part of the bargaining chips, he traded off the deputy senate presidency for thesupport of opposition senators, whose numerical strength was crucial in picking a senate president.
However, the poor performance of APC in the Southeast, a traditional stronghold of PDP,derailed that expectation. All the federal lawmakers from the five states in the geopoliticalzone were PDP members. The incoming senators, former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji UzorKalu, the outgoing Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, and should he win, Uwajumogu, present anopportunity for the APC not to tread the 2015 path.
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