Tinubu Rejects Move To Impose Senate President

• President-elect, Bola Tinubu has rejected moves to impose a senate president on the APC.

• This is a move by South-West senators as alleged by reports.

• This is in response to the Progressive Governors Forum aiming to submit its report on zoning of the 10th National Assembly.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has rejected a move by some South-west senators to impose the Senate President on the party. This comes as the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) is set to submit its report on the zoning of the 10th National Assembly leadership positions to Tinubu for consideration.

According to reports, Tinubu had requested the setting up of the APC governors’ zoning panel after some governors opposed a consensus arrangement aimed at micro-zoning the presiding officers’ positions at the National Assembly to certain individuals.

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This led to some anti-consensus governors threatening to move against the party’s leaders if due process was not followed in electing the presiding officers of the federal parliament.

A source revealed that the President-elect was almost buying into the consensus plans until the governors intervened and vowed to work against the party by supporting a second nomination on the floor of the chambers during the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly.

To avoid a preventable crisis, Tinubu asked the Progressive Governors Forum to set up a committee that would come up with an acceptable zoning arrangement to be deliberated upon by the chieftains of the party this week.

On Monday, the PGF is set to submit its report on the zoning of the 10th National Assembly leadership positions to Tinubu and the party’s leadership for consideration. However, sources say some ranking senators from the South-west geopolitical zone are working round the clock to allegedly arm-twist Tinubu into micro-zoning the 10th Senate Presiding Officers to two senators-elect.

Tinubu has reportedly rejected this move by the senators, who consider themselves his right-hand men, fearing that it might jeopardize the APC’s zoning arrangements on the floor of the Senate on the day of inauguration.

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It remains to be seen how the APC leadership will respond to the PGF report and the pressure from the South-west senators.

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