By thewillnigeria.com
A group of All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators-elect, Saturday May 22 in Abuja, adopted Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki as the sole candidate for the position of the Senate President in the 8th National Assembly.
The 35
Senators-elect, under the aegis of Like Minds Senators, adopted Saraki
in a resolution arrived at during the retreat organised by the party to
equip and empower the Senators-Elect for the challenges ahead.
The
resolution read by the leader of the group and Senator-elect for Kogi
State, Comrade Dino Melaye, said: “We commend the leadership of our
party for this timely and well-focused exercise.
“The issue of
National Assembly leadership is about integrity, competence, discipline
and leadership skills and not about fixing of candidates just for mere
horse-trading. Our stand is about electing a senator who eventually
becomes the chairman of National Assembly and relates with the executive
on behalf of Nigerians, fellow Senators and the National Assembly as an
institution.
“Furthermore leadership of National Assembly, is
about the Senator that has the wherewithal to stabilise the legislative
institution, working with the executive and judicial arm of government
to be effective and perform to their optimal capacity.
“In
addition, we are aware of the fact that ALL Senators from the North
Central zone have taken a firm position that they are only interested in
the office of the Senate President which has been earlier zoned by the
National Working Committee of our party and we are also aware that North
Central Senators have resolved to abide by the resolution of the zone
on a single candidate and anything short of this is an attempt to
jeopardise the collective interest of the zone.
“Of the 59
Senators of the APC, 35 of us present here today hereby reaffirm our
collective commitment and resolution to ensure that the candidature of
Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki as the Senate President of 8th Assembly.
“ We also resolved that the office of the Deputy Senate President be zoned to the North East.”
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