You would think that once PEFERN met with all those jostling for the Number 3 seat and expressed his choice, all the senators-elect under the APC banner would automatically fall in line. But the cabals, in different strategic formations, who never wanted PEFERN to emerge at the presidential primaries,...
Senate Presidency
The race for the position of President of the Nigerian Senate is daily assuming dimensions that evidently exemplify and validate its primacy in the balancing of political powers in Nigeria. At the innermost of the concentric power circles, position occupation is hinged on, or linked to the headships of...
By ABUBAKAR SULEIMAN, Abuja – As Senator Godswill Akpabio’s chance of becoming the next Senate President is getting brighter and brighter, this writer has reliably learned that the incumbent Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan is plotting to work against Akpabio a payback for Akpabio’s support for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed...
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Kano, Alhaji Danbalki Kwamanda, has described Senator Barau jibrin as the best man to be the president of the 10th senate. Kwamanda disclosed this during a news conference on Saturday in Kano. The Kano APC chieftain explained that the Senator, representing Kano...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – A group, known as Coalition for Good Governance & Economic Justice in Africa, has declared that under the prevailing circumstances in Nigeria, the in-coming President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) can only satisfy the necessary need to balance ethnic, regional, and...
I listened to Senator Jarigbe Agom, of Cross River North a couple of days ago on the Arise TV Morning Show, where he opined that competence and capacity should dictate who becomes the Senate President, and not the region. He added that the Senate should go for the best...
Prince John Mayaki, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Edo State, has faulted the argument of Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba that the leadership of the 10th Senate should be zoned to the South-East region based on historical precedent and the constitution’s recommendation for equity and justice in...
Senator Godswill Akpabio has been confirmed as the frontline candidate in the contest for the leadership of the 10th Senate presently going on in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Former Edo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Kassim Afegbua, gave the report in a statement debunking rumours making the rounds...
…says Kalu, others failed to deliver, cannot be rewarded for failure Former Commissioner for Information in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has maintained that the he South South geo-political zone must produce the leader of Nigeria’s 10th Senate due to the region’s vital importance to the country’s economic survival...
By DAPO ALAOSEBIKAN – It is an open secret that the race for the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly is on. It is equally a national knowledge that the race is literally between the South-South and South-East geopolitical zones of the country though the North-West is lately...
I am hugely motivated by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Abeokuta outburst of “Egbe kin ni yi wa; emi lokan”, meaning “You people, bring this thing (referring to the presidency); it is my turn”, to deploy his exemplar in making this intervention for the South-South zone in the...