Tag: NASS Leadership

Zoning Crisis: APC pressured to dump Akpabio, Barau, Abbas, Kalu over Senate, H/Reps leadership

Aminu Imam

The Amalgamated All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups say the contest for the president of the 10th Senate is a Constitutional matter, and Senators-elect must be allowed to exercise their constitutional rights to vote for leaders of their choice. The group’s Director-General, Kailani Muhammad, said this on Wednesday, at a news conference in Abuja. Muhammad, who is also the national chairman of the Tinubu/Shettima Network (TSN), described the endorsement of Godswill Akpabio for Senate president as a rumour. He said, “The rumours going around of endorsement is indeed a total…

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10th NASS Leadership: S/W Govs. Forum Chair, Gov Akeredolu, disagrees with APC NWC over imposition of candidates

Aminu Imam

The Chairman, South-West Governors’ Forum, and Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has frowned at the zoning formula released a few days ago by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as regards the leadership positions of the yet-to-be inaugurated 10th National Assembly. Akeredolu, who described the move of the ruling party’s NWC as a skewed arrangement that reinforced injustice and inequity, stressed that individuals positioning themselves as cabals due to their close ties with the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, were behind the move. APC had a…

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NASS Leadership: ‘N/Assembly shouldn’t be treated as govt. department’ – H/Reps. member

Aminu Imam

Chairman House Committee on Navy, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, has said that the National Assembly should not be treated like a department of government. Gagdi was responding to the position of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for zoning positions of principal officers of the 10th National Assembly. Gagdi who is aspiring for the speakership of the 10th House of Representatives said he was not worried about APC’s zoning because he was a victim of such, yet finally won. In an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise…

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10th Assembly: “I won’t be a weak, rubber-stamp Speaker “-Abbas assures Nigerians

Aminu Imam

An aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the speakership position in the House of Representatives for the incoming 10th Assembly, Tajudeen Abbas, has said he will not be or lead a rubber stamp parliament if he emerges Speaker of the House of Representatives. Abbas, who represents Zaria Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, North-West zone, is reportedly favoured by both the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party to become the Speaker of the next House of Reps. Speaking during a television programme, yesterday, Abbas said he has…

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10th Senate: Plot thickens against Tinubu, as North may resist Akpabio’s pick

Aminu Imam

Ahead of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th National Assembly (NASS), there are strong indications that there are strong indications that politicking and intense horse-trading would dog the jostle for Senate president’s position. This is mainly because indications have emerged that despite the President-elect, Bola Tinubu’s endorsement of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the President of 10th Senate, some political heavyweights from the North have other plans. The 10th National Assembly is likely to be confronted by two tough puzzles, including resolving the issue of religious balance via zoning and accommodating…

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10th NASS: Senators-elect reject APC zoning arrangement

Aminu Imam

…Insist on producing own leaders A group of Senators-elect across different political parties have kicked against zoning arrangement and insisted on producing their own leaders in the red chamber. The leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had yesterday zoned the Senate leadership position to South-South and North West; however, some Senators-elect, at the 10th National Assembly Induction programme organized by the National Assembly, kicked against this development. According to earlier reports, the APC’s National Working Committee (NWC), anointed former Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio as the…

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NASS Leadership: ‘One zone mustn’t produce two presiding officers’, Tinubu, APC told

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Integrity Group, has advised President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party not to allow one geo-political zone to produce two presiding officers, in the 10th National Assembly. The group’s Coordinator and Secretary, Dawu Mohammed and Chisom Nwakanma, in an issued statement yesterday, argued that sensitive positions should be distributed evenly in order not to avert crisis. They claimed that there were already alignments and counter-alignments that would be injurious to the unity and existence of the party should they be allowed to exist. It is…

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Akpabio’s Senate presidency will spell doom for the North – ACF

Aminu Imam

The Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), has dissociated itself from the endorsement of Sen. Godswill Akpabio for Senate Presidency by Coalition of Northern groups. A member of the ACF, Musa Sa’idu, who is also the leader of the Arewa community in Southern Nigeria,  stated this in an issued statement yesterday. A Coalition of Northern groups had endorsed Akpabio for the Senate Presidency saying he was best suited for the position.  Sa’idu said endorsing Akpabio for the Senate Presidency would spell doom for Northern Nigeria. “We hereby dissociate ourselves from the endorsement…

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10th Senate Presidency: APC Kaduna Chieftain criticises northerners canvassing for a South-East candidate

Aminu Imam

A prominent Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Alhaji Mohammed Murtala, who says he is a die-hard loyalist of President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has criticised   some northerners for canvassing for a candidate from the South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria to occupy the Senate Presidency in the forthcoming 10th Assembly. Excerpts: Que: As a prominent member of the APC, what are your views on the current jostling for the leadership positions in the forthcoming 10th Assembly? Ans: First of all, our position is that the North, and specifically the…

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2023 Budget: Buhari appeals to NASS to reconsider restructuring N22.7tr CBN loan

Aminu Imam

…Says FG will otherwise pay N1.8tr in interest President Muhammadu Buhari has again urged the National Assembly to reconsider his proposal to securitise the Federal Government’s outstanding ‘Ways and Means’ balance at the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN). Buhari, who made appeal while signing the 2023 Budget yesterday, warned that failure to grant the securitisation approval would cost the Government about N1.8trillion in additional interest in 2023 and a 40-year repayment period on the securitised debt. The President’s appeal comes barely one week after the Senate rejected his request to…

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