The meeting, earlier scheduled for Monday, will now hold on Thursday.
The planned meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the members-elect of the minority parties in the National Assembly has been postponed till Thursday.for Monday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the State House, Abuja. However, PREMIUM TIMES gathered that it had been postponed, though no reason was not given for the postponement.
Mr Tinubu is backing Mr Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa-Ibom State and the current senator for Kano North, Barau Jibrin, for the positions of senate president and deputy senate president. However, in the two chambers, Mr Tinubu’s preferred candidates are being challenged by other aspirants in the race. In the Senate, Osita Izunaso, Orji Kalu and Abdulaziz Yari have yet to accept the president’s decision.
Mr Tinubu’s desire to meet the opposition lawmakers-elect ahead of the 13 June inauguration of both chambers may not be unconnected with his desire to ensure the victory of Messrs Akpabio, Jibrin, Abbas and Kalu due to the situation in both chambers where the ruling party does not have an absolute majority.
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