10th NASS leadership: Aspirants urged to respect APC zoning arrangement

The Quintessential Professionals in Politics, a pro-democracy group, has urged lawmakers-elect, especially those from the North, scheming for leadership positions in the federal parliament to respect the zoning arrangement that will be put in place by APC leadership for election of presiding officers.

The group’s National Chairman, Dr Ibrahim Abubakar, made the appeal in a statement in Abuja yesterday.

Abubakar acknowledged that the election of National Assembly presiding officers is based on ranking, competence, character and experience, but stressed the need to consider ethnic and religious sentiments in the whole process.

“We consider the position of these aspirants as an aberration because of the need to ensure that all parts of the country are carried along in the current move by the incoming administration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to reconcile all the aggrieved people of the country after the presidential election.”