A former Governor of Zamfara State and senator-elect, Abdul’Aziz Yari, on Sunday evening, in Abuja, urged the governing All Progressives Congress to “reward performance” and not consider ethnicity or religion when zoning key offices in the 10th National Assembly.
“They should not overheat the polity of the party with religion. If the APC goes with religion, people in northern Nigeria that did the real voting, they’ll be annoyed and they will lose hope and confidence in the APC. And that’s the truth of the matter,” he said.
Yari added that the APC must exercise caution in its next course of action as the party no longer has the numbers it used to have in the past. He said, “The 10th assembly is a completely different Assembly from the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. Usually, any party that has majority has the majority with two-thirds most of the time, but our own case is completely different. Why? Because in the House of Representatives, I told him that the minority are having the higher number there, they have 182. While our party has 178. In the Senate where we used to have like 65, 70, we now have 59 and the opposition has 50.
“In taking decision of the party, they have to put these into consideration and look at how it’s going to be done. Because in the end of the whole exercise, whatever happens, we believe strongly that election must hold in both chambers.”All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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