Nabena urges Buhari to play role in NASS leadership election

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Yekini Nabena, has implored President Muhammadu Buhari to play a lead role in the party’s internal selection arrangement for the incoming 9th National Assembly.

Nabena, who spoke with journalists in Abuja, underscored the need for the party leadership to put in place an inclusive and fair internal zoning/selection arrangement to enable the APC caucus to produce all its preferred principal officers for the incoming Senate and House of Representatives.

He said the advice needed to be considered to avoid a repeat of the political crisis that followed the election of the National Assembly leadership in 2015.

“The PDP has lost the presidential election and they have now adopted a plan B from their infamous Dubai strategy meeting to hijack the incoming National Assembly leadership by repeating their heinous coup in the previous assembly.

“The National Assembly is a strategic arm of government to achieve the change agenda for the country. I call on the party’s leadership to urgently set out mechanisms for the zoning/selection of our preferred principal officers who will join the President Buhari administration in implementing our change agenda.