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STRONG Indications have emerged that the aspiration of former Minority chief, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for the Senate presidency is shaking as supporters are stated to have diminished tremendously.
It was gathered yesterday that help for the previous governor of Akwa Ibom State for the Senate presidency of the tenth Nationwide Meeting could have lastly hit the rocks as a result of extra senators reportedly dumped his camp for Senators Abdul’aziz Yari and Osita Izunaso-led Senate Democratic Caucus, SDC…..CONTINUE READING
Recall that the All Progressives Congress, APC, had introduced the endorsement of Akpabio and three others for the topmost positions within the Nationwide Meeting. Whereas Senator Akpabio from South-South was endorsed for Senate presidency, Senator Jubrin Barau from North-West was chosen as Deputy Senate President, simply as Tajudeen Abass, North-West was picked as speaker of the Home of Representatives and Kanu, South-East, deputy speaker.
Their selection by the occasion didn’t, nonetheless, go down effectively with some members of the occasion, particularly these aspiring for the place of presiding places of work in each the Senate and the Home of Representatives. Consequently, protests, condemnation and robust criticisms throughout the nation trailed the event.
It was additionally gathered that as of yesterday afternoon, Senator Akpabio was left with lower than 30 senators, whereas the Yari/Izunaso-led camp swelled to over 50 between Thursday and yesterday morning.
From the statistics taken on the final outing of the 2 camps held concurrently on the Transcorp Hilton Resort and the Vacation spot by Gidanka respectively, 21 senators-elect attended the Stability group of Akpabio, whereas 57 bodily attended the Yari-led group assembly, with apologies from 16 different senators-elect who couldn’t attend in particular person.
It was additionally gathered yesterday morning that at the least 4 of the senators-elect that attended Akpabio assembly have shifted camp and alliance to the SDC camp of Yari and Izunaso. The 4 senators are from South-South and South-West.
With this, the Yari/Izunaso-led group, made up of senators-elect from the six geo-political zones of the nation, now has over 60 senators-elect of their camp, a transparent majority within the 109-member Senate.
Even with the 57 senators-elect that bodily attended the assembly at Senator Izunaso-owned Vacation spot Resort workplace, the group has already secured greater than the 55 votes required to supply the Senate president.
In what’s now seen as a calculated transfer by the powers behind the 2 camps to find out the strongest pressure within the rising Senate, the simultaneous conferences of the 2 camps have now confirmed the precise power of the competing tendencies.
It seems that Senator Akpabio could also be shedding out for Senator Abdul’aziz Yari or the opposite main aspirant in his workforce, Senator Osita Izunaso.
The abysmal attendance of senators-elect on the Akpabio-led camp assembly inTranscorp Hilton was stated to have embarrassed the extremely revered former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, who was invited there as an observer…..CONTINUE READING
