The North-West Progressives Forum has endorsed former Zamfara State Governor, Abdul-Aziz Yari, as the Senate President of the 10th Senate.
This was as the group cautioned the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, not to allow politicians from other geopolitical zones of the country to ambush him over the Senate presidency seat.
Convener of the group, Nasir Dambatta, at a press conference in Kaduna on Saturday, said the North-West geo-political zone that gave the All Progressives Congress the highest votes in the last presidential election, deserved the Senate Presidents slot.
According to him, it will only be fair and just that the slot(Senate Presidency) of the 10th Senate be allocated to the North-West, the region that gave the President-elect more than 30% of votes in the last election.
Dambatta added that the group was of the belief that should the Senate Presidency slot eventually be micro-zoned to the North-West, the person that is eminently competent for the job is former Zamfara State governor, Abdul-Aziz Yari.
We, therefore, join the call for the APC and the president-elect to act justly and fairly by zoning the position of the Senate President to the region that gave him more than 30 per cent of his winning votes, the group stated.
