Senate Presidency: APC To Decide Zoning After Ramadan

Senate Spokesperson, Ajibola Bashiru said the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC will take a decision on zoning the leadership of the 10th National Assembly at the end of the Ramadan fast.

Bashiru disclosed this while speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.

He said, “I believe that our party will ultimately take a decision on the zoning possibly after Ramadan and certainly before June when the next Assembly will be convoked,”

According to Bashiru, some of the parameters to be considered for the emergence of the next Senate President and the next Speaker of the House of Representatives include ranking, competence, capacity, religion, zonal contribution to the victory of Bola Tinubu in the February 25 presidential poll, amongst others.

“It will be in the best interest of our party to zone the offices so that we can narrow the number of contestants because when you have eight persons from a single political party contesting, it creates a problem for us to having a cohesive force going into the election,” he added.

Recall that the APC won majority of the legislative seats during the elections with over 55 Senate seats out of 109 and over 160 out of 360 House of Representatives seats.

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Bashiru said any of the Senators-elect are competent to be presiding officers over the National Assembly.

He, however, said the APC National Working Committee (NWC) and the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) has not taken any decision yet on which of the six geopolitical zone will produce the next Senate President.

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He said, “I’m not aware that the NWC of our party has taken a position on the issue of zoning and where the zoning will be done.

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