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The North-west caucus of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Senate on Thursday adopted Senator Ahmad Lawan as its candidate for the position of senate president.
The caucus of the North-west, which is the only zone with seven states, is the largest political bloc in the senate with 21 out of the 109-member senate.

Of the 21 seats, only senator-elect, Danjuma La’ah, representing Kaduna South senatorial district was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

THISDAY gathered that the meeting of the caucus held for over three hours early Thursday at the Kaduna Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, under the chairmanship of Senator Abu Ibrahim.
Sources close to the meeting said the caucus “carefully considered the candidacy of contenders for the Senate presidency of the 8th Senate and after a critical analysis, unanimously settled for Senator Lawan,
Chairman of the present Senate Committee on Public Accounts.”

Senator Ibrahim is from Katsina, home state of president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and doubles as vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Communications.

Chairman, Committee on States and Local Governments, Kano State-born Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya and Senator-elect, Adamu Aliero, served as alternate chairmen. Aliero served as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

THISDAY gathered that 17 of the 20 APC senators from the North-west zone endorsed Lawan for the senate presidency.
Kano State Governor and senator-elect, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, and former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Sani Yerima, were reportedly absent at the meeting but reportedly sent messages of support for Lawan.

A source at the meeting blamed Yerima’s absence on the death of the senator’s elder sister last Wednesday.
A senator at the meeting told THISDAY that the North-west caucus was most comfortable with the Lawan’s candidacy.

He added: “Besides, he has promised to render total support for the agenda of change of the APC which the North west has always championed.

“The caucus also impressed it on Lawan to support the anti-corruption agenda of Buhari of which he promised to do.”

He continued: “You know that out of 109 senators, Lawan needs just 55 votes to clinch the senate presidency. With my caucus (North-west) already guaranteeing him one-third of the required number, it would be easy ride for him.

“If you add the endorsement he got early in the week from the South-west APC caucus in the senate to what we gave him today (yesterday) it may have nailed the coffin of any aspirant for the position of senate president.

So is no longer saraki

ozoigbondu:
So is no longer saraki

Saraki is romancing pdp senators

Sai lawan

Sai femi

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The Core-Northern States have a hidden agenda hence they want to protect Buhari by desiring Senate presidency not minding that the President-elect is from their "Zone"

David Mark should contest this Senate presidency since APC can't put their house in order or PDP should support Saraki.

With just 14 votes from APC Senators and a bloc vote from his PDP counterparts David Mark gets the majority vote to preside over the Senate provided APC nominates 2 or 3 candidates from different zones.

Why will they not adopt when the yorubas have given it to them

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
The Core-Northern States have a hidden agenda hence they want to protect Buhari by desiring Senate presidency not minding that the President-elect is from their "Zone"

David Mark should contest this Senate presidency since APC can't put their house in order or PDP should support Saraki.

With just 14 votes from APC Senators and a bloc vote from his PDP counterparts David Mark gets the majority vote to preside over the Senate provided APC nominates 2 or 3 candidates from different zones.

If wishes were horses.