Northern Govs, Senators elect to decide who becomes Senate President in Kaduna today

To make the job of electing the president of the 8th Senate easy, governors and Senators-elect from the Northern part of the country are scheduled to meet today in Kaduna to decide on who leads the Senate, Vanguard reports. The meeting, whose arrowhead is allegedly a governor elect who is a close friend of the President-elect, is expected to have in attendance Governor and Senator-elects from the North Central, North West and North East.

An aide to the Governor-elect, while speaking to journalists in confidence, said it has become necessary for the meeting to take place in view of the dimension the issue of who becomes the next Senate President has taken.

Speaking on the meeting, an APC chieftain, who noted that the leadership of the party has subtly conceded to the request of a governor elect that the North should meet to decide on one of the contenders against the backdrop that it has been agreed that it should come from there, said, “I think the issue of the senate presidency is merely being over flogged, there is nothing to worry about the matter any more because I can assure you that the three zones from the region will meet in Kaduna either today or tomorrow to take a stand on the issue.

“We know that some interest have clashed but we need to tell ourselves the truth especially now that we are just about starting a new era on a new platform; these things are bound to happen but the position some of us have taken will be strongly canvassed at the meeting.

“It is not as if none of the contenders is qualified, they are all eminently qualified but we have to look at issues. Which zones produced the second highest votes for the party? Which zone has produced the senate president consistently? Can there be a situation whereby we have a vice president and senate president of the same ethnic stock? Who has more legislative experience among the three? We shall meet to canvass these arguments in favour of Senator Lawan”.

The APC chieftain also debunked insinuations that the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was pushing for Lawan.