A chieftain of APC in Niger State, Alhaji Mohammed Nma Kolo has urged the ruling party’s leadership to compensate the North Central’s support during the last election by allowing it to produce a presiding officer in the 10th Senate.
Kolo, in a statement yesterday, said the APC leadership in the state made massive sacrifices that led to the party’s success in the North Central zone in the last election.Kolo said when the position is eventually micro zoned to the North Central, Senator Sani Musa from Niger State, is an eminently competent persons for the job.
“It is only fair and decent that with the President from the South-West, Vice-President from the North East, the Senate Presidency should in the interest of equity and ordinary rules of decency be allocated to the North Central where Niger State is eminently qualified for the job,” Kolo said.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu (Abia, APC), has declared to contest the position of the speaker in the 10th National Assembly billed for inauguration in June.
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Kalu, who represents Bende Federal Constituency, disclosed this yesterday while briefing reporters at the National Assembly in Abuja.
The lawmaker, who is returning to the house for the second time, said he had the required legislative experience, competence and capacity to hold the speaker’s position.
Kalu said his emergence as the next speaker would give the South East the opportunity to lead the house after about 40 years of not having the opportunity to do so.
He, therefore, urged his colleagues, APC and other stakeholders to support him emerge as the speaker.
By Abdullateef Salau & Itodo Daniel Sule
