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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, today in Kwara State on Next Level Engagements. He was received by a mammoth crowd happily cheering the “O to ge” slogan in union.
Though President Buhari did not interfere in the election of the Senate president, deputy Senate president, speaker and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives in 2015, the emergence of Dr. Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker respectively did not go down well with the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, that wanted Senator Ahmad Lawan for the Senate seat and Femi Gbajabiamila for the speakership.
The source said: “Be rest assured that the President will not micro-manage the process of electing the National Assembly leadership but he will not allow the lawlessness that happened in 2015 to repeat itself. Ntufam Hilliard Etta, APC National Vice Chairman for the zone, who made the plea in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, said the leadership of the party in the zone had done extreme hard work towards stabilizing the polity to ensure that business thrives in the region.
The statement read: ‘The South South zone wishes to therefore call on Nigerians from all walks of life to support the zoning of the office of the Senate President to the South South geo political zone. “Therefore, a Senate President from the South- South zone will stabilize the polity, focus on its statutory role of making laws. Furthermore, a Senate President from the oil-rich region will avoid unnecessary rancour with the executive as has been witnessed in the recent past.
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