JUST IN: APC NWC Holds Crucial Meeting Over Zoning Of Senate President, Speakership Positions

• The APC’s National Working Committee are currently convening a crucial meeting to deliberate on the zoning of the Senate President and Speakership positions.

• There is a fierce division within the party regarding the zone that will produce the next Senate President.

• The objective of the meeting is to devise a template for a consensus zoning formula for sharing the offices of the National Assembly.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the National Working Committee (NWC) members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are currently having a crucial meeting on the zoning of the Senate President and Speakership positions of the National Assembly.

The party has been fiercely divided over the zone to produce the next Senate President. The Muslim Northern bloc of the party favours one of their own to occupy the office. But those in the South disagree, citing the need for religious balancing.

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The meeting is expected to come up with a template for a consensus zoning formula for sharing the offices of the National Assembly.

According to Nation Newspaper, the meeting will also consider the preliminary reports of an external auditor engaged to look into the books of the party in preparing a financial report to be presented to the National Executive Committee. (NEC) whenever is conveyed.

Also on the agenda is the seven petitions by the National Vice Chairman (North West), Dr Salihu Moh. Lukman and the legal action he instituted against the National Chairman and National Secretary for an alleged breach of the party Constitution.

The crisis further worsened last week with the National Legal Adviser, Ahmad Usman El- Marzuq recommending the expulsion of Lukman for dragging the party leadership to court.

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The meeting is being presided over by the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu with no fewer than 18 other members of the 24-man NEC currently in attendance.

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