The supporters of the ex-president on the platform of Citizens Network For Peace and Development in Nigeria (CNPDN), called on the National Working Committee (NWC) and the various organs of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone the Senate Presidency to the Southsouth.
National Secretary of CNPDN, Francis Wainwei, at a news conference in Abuja yesterday, said the South–South should be allowed to produce the president of the senate in the 10th National Assembly.
Based on Senate standing rules, only ranking members of the upper legislative chamber are eligible to contest for the positions of the President and Deputy President of the Senate respectively.JAMB Result
The southern leader said the Southsouth zone has not been given the opportunity to produce the President of the Senate since the return of democratic rule in 1999.
He said: “The call to zone the Senate Presidency of the 10th Senate to the South-South is also strengthened by the fact that the All Progressives Congress (APC) got more than 25 % (percent) votes in each of the Six (6) South-South states, irrespective of the fact that before now, it had been known as the stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“The electoral contribution of the South-South greatly helped the ruling party to clinch the presidency in the 2023 presidential election. It is, therefore, necessary for the party to consolidate its electoral success in the zone by zoning the Senate Presidency to it.
“In the same vein, we are calling on the ruling party to also zone all the available political positions equitably among the Six (6) geopolitical zones, to strengthen national unity and cohesion.
“As patriotic citizens, our primary interest is the unity and prosperity of the nation, hence, this clarion calls to the ruling party to do the needful by promoting government of national inclusion, equity, and fairness to all the geopolitical zone.
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“It will also drastically reduce the usual acrimony that characterizes such struggle for power among the geo-political zones, thereby, reducing unnecessary distractions for the peaceful and smooth take-off of the new dispensation under the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”JAMB Portal
Narrowing the choice to Akpabio, Wainwei said: “We have also gone further to examine the leadership credentials of senators-elect from the South-South zone that have the competence and experience to progressively pilot the affairs of the Senate of the 10th National Assembly.
“Our wide-ranging and robust consultations revealed that Godswill Akpabio is the right senator-elect with the competence, national acceptability, and political experience to effectively pilot the Senate to greater heights. Akpabio being a former Minority Leader of the Senate under the Peoples Democratic Party and now to be President of the Senate under the All Progressives Congress, can be a true unifier; he can be the rallying point of all the senators and a formidable bridge between the Executive and the Legislature, having also been a former governor and minister.NYSC Portal
“We are, therefore, using this medium to also call on all patriotic senators-elect to support and vote massively for Akpabio to emerge as the Senate President of the 10th Senate for the betterment of the country.
“We are therefore, calling on all patriotic Nigerians who truly want to experience the ‘Nigeria of our Dreams ‘ to prevail on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone the position of the Senate President of the 10th Senate to the Southsouth geopolitical zone and also prevail on their senators-elect to facilitate and ensure the emergence of Akpabio as the Senate President of the 10th Senate and the leader of the 10th National Assembly.”
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