Senate Presidency: Tinubu Urges APC Senators-elect to Abide By Party’s Zoning Formula

By Akinwale Kasali

Following the scheming for the Senate Presidency , President Bola Tinubu has appealed to Senators elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to abide by the Party’s Zoning formula.

Making this strong appeal, the President, who is the Leader of the Party said that the Senators should respect and abide by the Zoning arrangements of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Party as announced.

The APC NWC had zoned the Senate Presidency to the South-South, and favoured former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, as the Party’s preferred candidate and Senator Jubrin Barau from North West as Deputy Senate President.

In a meeting with the 43 APC senators-elect led by Senator Akpabio at the Aso Rock Villa late Wednesday night, President Tinubu made a passionate appeal to every APC Senator-elect to toe the lines of the party’s zoning arrangement in electing their presiding officers stressing that this is the right thing to do in support of the renewed hope agenda of his administration.

In his words: “At this point of our history and challenges facing us as a new administration, all hands must be on deck to salvage the unpalatable situation facing the nation. We must see the situation as a pan-Nigerian Project for the Executive and the Legislature to work out solutions to the challenges of the nation” he told the senators-elect”.

He urged the Senators to be prepared for the task ahead in finding solutions to the myriads of national problems, which cannot be addressed by the Executive Arm of Government alone but by jointly working together of the executive and the legislature, adding that the Senators-elect present should reach out and pass the appeal to other APC Senators-elect, unavoidably absent, to toe the party line and put a leash on all personal ambition in favour of party programme and national interest.

“Talk to your colleagues that are not here to toe the party line and give the renewed hope agenda a chance to succeed. The elephant is big enough for all members and indeed Nigerians to have a share of the renewed hope in due course” he admonished”, he stated.