A report by Leadership suggests that the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) will present a candidate to vie for the office of the Senate
president, even though the All Progressives Congress (APC) has majority
in the 8th assembly.
The PDP has started plotting on the best candidate to field that will get votes from majority of senators. The APC got about 61 elected senators in the March 28 National Assembly election, while the PDP only had 49 senators elected in the election.
Senators George Akume from Benue State, Adamu Abdullahi from Nassarawa State and Bukola Saraki from Kwara State have all indicated their interest in the position amidst rumours that the APC has zoned the position to the North Central region.
The calculation of the PDP is that with several candidates emerging from the APC, the votes from the APC senators will be divided according to candidates they support, thereby reducing the number of votes for each candidate, while the PDP sole candidate will clinch the votes of all its members to retain the Senate president slot.
Some APC senators are already getting jittery over the PDP plans saying the APC must put its house in order to avoid losing the opportunity it has to control the Senate.
Meanwhile, senators from the North East have insisted that for the sake of justice and fair play, the APC leadership should zone the Senate presidency to the zone which delivered the second highest number of votes to the party after the North West.
In a related development, Chairman, Senate Committee on National Planning, Senator Barnabas Gemade, has thrown his weight behind the candidature of Senator Akume
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The PDP has started plotting on the best candidate to field that will get votes from majority of senators. The APC got about 61 elected senators in the March 28 National Assembly election, while the PDP only had 49 senators elected in the election.
Senators George Akume from Benue State, Adamu Abdullahi from Nassarawa State and Bukola Saraki from Kwara State have all indicated their interest in the position amidst rumours that the APC has zoned the position to the North Central region.
The calculation of the PDP is that with several candidates emerging from the APC, the votes from the APC senators will be divided according to candidates they support, thereby reducing the number of votes for each candidate, while the PDP sole candidate will clinch the votes of all its members to retain the Senate president slot.
Some APC senators are already getting jittery over the PDP plans saying the APC must put its house in order to avoid losing the opportunity it has to control the Senate.
Meanwhile, senators from the North East have insisted that for the sake of justice and fair play, the APC leadership should zone the Senate presidency to the zone which delivered the second highest number of votes to the party after the North West.
In a related development, Chairman, Senate Committee on National Planning, Senator Barnabas Gemade, has thrown his weight behind the candidature of Senator Akume
Read More...
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