10th NASS: Akpabio Senate Presidency Is Not Yet Settled, As Opposition Members Gang Up
After weeks of intrigues, the National Working Committee, NWC, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, finally announced that it had zoned the position of the Senate President to the South-South and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Northwest for the forthcoming 10th National Assembly. The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, confirmed the arrangement in a press briefing at the end of the Party's NEC meeting held at its national secretariat in Abuja. The Party also said it zoned the position of Deputy Senate President to the Northwest and Deputy Speaker to the Southeast. Adopting a zoning template of candidates by its President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, APC settled for Senators Godswill Akpabio and Barau Jubrin for the Senate leadership and Messrs Abass Tajudeen and Ben Kalu for the House of Representatives leadership. "The NWC noted with respect the outcome of the meetings held between the President-elect and the leadership of the