By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President of Senate, Ahmad Lawan has debunked media reports that he has joined the race for the Presidency of the 10th National Assembly. Senator Lawan debunked the report in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. “I have read some media reports that I have...
Senate Presidency
Daniel Bwala is a known mouthpiece of Atiku Abubakar’s failed (for the umpteenth time) presidential ambition. But in the crazy political world of the Turakin Adamawa where it’s now apparent that the water has since dried on the back of his fish, his lieutenants now seem to be trying...
Senator-elect, Aliyu Wadada (SDP-Nasarawa) has said the North-Central caucus of the National Assembly will ensure that the zone gets the position it deserves among the list of presiding officers of the assembly. He said this on Friday in Abuja while speaking with newmen on the sideline of the just...
A group under the aegis of All Progressives Congress (APC) Tinubu/Danmodi Support Group from Kano State, has described the choice of Senators Godswill Akpabio and Barau Jibril as Senate President and Deputy of the 10th National Assembly as the best thing that happened to the party. The North West...
If there is any perfect example in recent times that demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that Nigeria is a nation reputed for doing one thing repeatedly and expects a different result, it is the present intrigues surrounding the nomination or better still, selection of principal officers for the incoming 10th...
Sen. Godswill Akpabio, (APC Akwa Ibom) a top contenders for the Senate presidency, of the 10th National Assembly, has assured lawmakers of stability in the upper chamber if elected. Akpabio, gave the assurance in Abuja on Tuesday, when he led 42 other senators, under the aegis of Integrity Group,...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, says governors from the North Central zone have not made any public statement on the zoning formula for parliamentary positions. The governor debunked a media report quoting them as rejecting the position of the APC leadership on the issue. This is contained in a...
On May 8 the National Working Committee of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) came up with a list of its preferred candidates for the leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives, the two chambers of the National Assembly. The anointed candidates are Sen. Goodwill Akpabio from Akwa-Ibom and...
Sen. Abdulaziz Yari (APC-Zamfara) says he can’t be stopped from the race for the Presidency of the 10th National Assembly, because it is his constitutional right.He said this when he spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Monday. Yari, a former Governor of Zamfara, said that no individual had the...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Sunday expressed support for the ambitions of Sen. Godswill Akpabio and Sen. Barau Jibrin as President and Deputy President of the 10th Senate, respectively. Sanwo-Olu expressed his support at a consultative visit to Lagos House, Marina, when he received members of the...
One of the support Groups of the President-Elect, Tinubu Hope of Nigeria Vanguard, has commended the zoning arrangement for the National Assembly positions by the National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Sen....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The former Minister of Niger Delta, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, has been described as the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly. The Chairman of the independent Coalition of APC Support Groups Leaders, Malam Sadiq Jikta, stated this in a statement issued on Friday. Malam Jikta...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President-elect, Bola Tinubu has been warned against endorsing a candidate for the position of Senate President from the South-South without any regard for the Southeast. The South East caucus gave the advise in a communique issued after a meeting on Monday in Abuja. Senator...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has disclosed that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, urged him to step down for Sen. Godswill Akpabio in the race for the 10th Senate’s presidency. Umahi made the disclosure on Monday at the Muhammadu Buhari International Airport, Onueke while answering questions from newsmen on arrival...
Olusegun Aremu Okikiolakan Obasanjo, a retired Army General and former Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, had won the February 27, 1999, presidential poll on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the expense of a former Minister of Finance and ex Secretary to...
The North-Central stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have urged President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, to ensure the zoning of the Speakership of the 10th Assembly to the zone. Their spokesman, Rev. Dominic Alancha, said this at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday. He said that the stakeholders were...
The Northwest APC Chairmen Forum have endorsed the choices of Sen. Godswill Akpabio and Sen. Barau Jibrin as the President and Deputy President of the Senate, respectively. Addressing newsmen on behalf of his colleagues in Kano on Sunday, the Jigawa APC Chairman, Alhaji Aminu Sani, described the choice as...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has distanced itself from the endorsement of Sen. Godswill Akpabio for Senate Presidency by Coalition of Northern groups. A member of the ACF, Alhaji Musa Saidu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Saidu, also the...
The Vice President, Nigerian Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Council, Balarabe Rufai, has called on Sen. Abdulazeel Yari to sheath his sword and accept the position of APC on Sen Godswill Akpabio as Senate President. Rufai who is also the immediate past National Co-ordinator of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG)...
By 5 June when our 10th National Assembly will be proclaimed, a political tactician of uncommon hue, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would have crossed the first hurdle of taking a firm position to ensuring that dialogue and robust networking prevails over tantrums and bad blood in the emergence of...