Inauguration of the 10th National Assembly would be confronted by two tough puzzles, including resolving the issue of religious balance via zoning and accommodating the interests of the North.
However, indications have emerged that despite the President-elect, Bola Tinubu’s endorsement of Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio as the President of 10th Senate, some political heavyweights from the North have other plans.
This is just as some Senators-elect expressed their belief that the election of the next Senate President would be predicated on either, “an anticipated dollar bazaar to influence voting or power of bloc voting interests.” “Will the continuation be on the path of side-lining stakeholders in appointments and distribution of amenities? Is Tinubu coming to be a winner-takes all? How would the North respond to some pieces of legislation to come by way of Executive bills?
“All what you people in the media are seeing and writing would not be the same when the 10th Senate is proclaimed and inaugurated,” he added, stressing that nobody is taking zoning serious on the matter. The former Nasarawa State governor noted that the NWC would not try to quench the ambition of those who are predicating their aspiration on either “zonal, individual or institutional interests.”
Yari, who spoke while addressing leaders of his Tinubu Shettima Network in Abuja, Saturday, noted that election of the Senate Presidency remains the exclusive preserve of Senators. He explained that what was uppermost in the minds of the governors was basically “to promote the unity, peace and stability of Nigeria within the spirit of fairness, equity and justice, which the late Premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, stood for.”
Former APC national secretary, Architect Waziri Bulama, however, told The Guardian that the decision to adopt the Muslim/Muslim ticket was reached after wide consultations among party stakeholders, remarking that only the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation , David Babachir Lawal and former House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, rejected it.
“In our not-too-distant-history, we had David Mark and Ike Ekweremadu at the head of the National Assembly leadership and both were Christians, who held their grounds without pandering to sentiments. We have to move past this and the Tenth National Assembly provides the opportunity for that.”
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