press9jatv:
Good one from the South East Senators, You really stand firm with your brother here unlike that clueless David Umahi that betrayed his brother and southeast region of Nigeria. Orji Uzor Kalu will win the Senate President seat no doubt. All odds are in his favour for the 10th Senate President seat 💺

Have you forgotten so soon when Orji Kalu said if power can not be microzone to the South East then the North should have it?

The senators do not represent our wish here in the south east.
We prefer competency to religion and ethnicity .

There is nothing wrong in a Muslim or Northern senate president.

We Ndi igbo are still building bridges and flyovers

Parachoko:
Have you forgotten so soon when Orji Kalu said if power can not be microzone to the South East then the North should have it?

that’s a political statement joor. Akpabio has make series of this statements before now. Politics is politics

softwareman:

Continue to dream. Senate president of where?
Not of the federal Republic of Nigeria. Maybe somewhere else.

politics is politics, all odds are Orji Uzor Kalu favours. Akpabio doesn’t have the numbers to win the senate president seat

press9jatv:
that’s a political statement joor. Akpabio has make series of this statements before now. Politics is politics

Lol

Show me Akpabio saying if power can't be microzone to the South South it should go to the North

A lot of you hypocrites dey always make me laugh 😂😂😂

Is all Politics when he stepped down for Lawan instead of a Southerner

Well, APC is also playing politics by making Akpabio the Choosen one

Parachoko:
Lol

Show me Akpabio saying if power can't be microzone to the South South it should go to the North

A lot of you hypocrites dey always make me laugh 😂😂😂

Is all Politics when he stepped down for Lawan instead of a Southerner

Well, APC is also playing politics by making Akpabio the Choosen one

37 APC senators aren’t in support of Akpabio Senate President seat 💺 . All odds are in Orji Uzor Kalu favours

Okoroawusa:

What is this one saying? Abaribe from what party?
All these things happening now I predicted 8 years ago. He is not even in PDP anymore...

What did you predict?
Always against Igbo political interest.Why can't you support their move or keep quiet,

press9jatv:
37 APC senators aren’t in support of Akpabio Senate President seat 💺 . All odds are in Orji Uzor Kalu favours

Nah so una dey make mouth say nah Obi go win the Presidential Election

If Kalu contest against Akpabio, he will lose woefully

Parachoko:
Nah so una dey make mouth say nah Obi go win the Presidential Election

If Kalu contest against Akpabio, he will lose woefully

I don hear you Kalu is contesting against Akpabio and he has 37 APC senators at his back. So what again

press9jatv:
I don hear you Kalu is contesting against Akpabio and he has 37 APC senators at his back. So what again

37 APC senators in your dream?

Una like to dey believe una own fantasy, una no like to dey face reality

Absolute majority of APC members will vote for Akpabio.

Akwa Ibom gave more votes to the APC than the whole South East combine.

Parachoko:
37 APC senators in your dream?

Una like to dey believe una own fantasy, una no like to dey face reality

Absolute majority of APC members will vote for Akpabio.

Akwa Ibom gave more votes to the APC than the whole South East combine.

37 APC Senators Reject Akpabio, Back Kalu, Yari For Senate President, Deputy



Fierce battle has continued for the principal offices of the 10th National Assembly as about 37 senators-elect of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have vehemently rejected the advanced choice of Senators Godswill Akpabio and Jubrin Barau for Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively.



The choice of the pair, according to Vanguard report, was communicated to the senators-elect by the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at a meeting of the leadership of the APC on Friday night in Abuja.



The meeting also had the leadership of the National Assembly in attendance.



Akpabio, who is the immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, hails from Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district while Barau represents Kano North.



According to reports, the president-elect also told the gathering that his choice for speakership of the House of Representatives was Hon. Tajudeen Abbas who represents Zaria federal constituency of Kaduna State.



A source, who was privy to the meeting and preferred not to be mentioned, told Sunday Vanguard that many of the senators-elect at the occasion, numbering about 37, said no to the choice of Akpabio, citing national unity and cohesion as their reason.



In the alternative, the senators reportedly pointed to the direction of the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, and a former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Abdulaziz Yari for Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively.



While Kalu represents Abia North Senatorial District, Yari was recently voted to represent Zamfara West.



The source added that the APC senators, who visibly showed their disapproval of the preferred choices, demanded the neutrality of the president-elect in the elections of the presiding and principal officers of the 10th National Assembly.



Akpabio’s choice, it was learnt, came after Tinubu had given Akpabio the condition that he must have about 60 senators-elect backing his bid a development which had made the camp of the president-elect to ask for the list of his backers.



In essence, for any senator to emerge Senate President, he needs to have 60 votes on the floor of the Senate in June when the election of the presiding and principal officers holds.



Recall that that APC has 59 senators-elect while opposition parties put together have 50 senators-elect, making it a total of 109 after the February 25 general elections.



The breakdown of the opposition parties standing are as follows: PDP 36; LP 8; NNPP 2; YPP 1; APGA 1 and SDP 2.



“About 37 APC senators-elect have rejected the choice of Akpabio as the Senate President. He was introduced alongside Senator Barau as Deputy Senate President”, one source told Sunday Vanguard.



“But the senators-elect cited national unity and said they would rather vote for Orji Kalu and Yari as Senate President and Deputy.Senate President.



“They also appealed to the president-elect who also chose Tajudeen Abbas for Speaker not to interfere in the elections of the presiding officers of bath chambres of the National Assembly. This is the situation now.”



On the choice of Abbas, the gathering, according to the source, expressed concern that Abbas may not be accepted by the generality of the House members, saying it would be difficult to market him.



The source said that the Reps-elect present at the occasion were rooting for the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Hon. Muktar Aliyu Betara, from Borno State to be Speaker.



Abbas is said to have the support of the outgoing Speaker of the House, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, although he has since denied it, saying he was waiting for the party’s zoning formula before throwing his weight behind the growing list of contestants for speakership of the incoming Assembly.


https://metrowatchxtra.com/2023/05/07/senate-presidency-37-apc-senators-reject-akpabio-back-orji-kalu-metrowatch/

1nice:
Majority of Nigerians wants senator Enyinnaya Abaribe to emerge as the Senate President of the 10th Nigeria National Assembly: due to his knowledge of the Nigeria National Assembly; having once serve as a minority leader in the 9th Senate.

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is competent and have the capacity to bring the positive change Nigerians expect from the 10th National Assembly.

Una don start with majority of nigerians crap.
God forbid abaribe. Low down terrorist.
Hyper bigot that rolls with kanu.

The east deserves nothing in this political arrangement.

You people should learn to lobby. Not demand as if say na una papa get hair pass for chest.

press9jatv:





https://metrowatchxtra.com/2023/05/07/senate-presidency-37-apc-senators-reject-akpabio-back-orji-kalu-metrowatch/

Keep on believing every nonsense bloggers dey churn out

Nah so Obi dey win online polls before the presidential election

press9jatv:
Good one from the South East Senators, You really stand firm with your brother here unlike that clueless David Umahi that betrayed his brother and southeast region of Nigeria. Orji Uzor Kalu will win the Senate President seat no doubt. All odds are in his favour for the 10th Senate President seat 💺

You smoke alot

ChEkWaSIyKe:


[b][/b]you just registered on yesterday and start constituting nuisance here on NL. You need to receive another ban for life.

I need to see your medical certificate of mental fitness because you don’t sound mentally stable.

South East will not get anything in this government. You can be 100% sure of that

yinkus6750:
They don't want Biafra again, it's now SP they want
What did they contribute to the present day democracy?
The region is filled with sorrow, tears and blood.
They fail to address that, it's position that is now hungrying them.

I will never insult ur region,but u na ur entire of ur generation wil be fill with sorrow,tears and ur blood

South south want, north west want, south east want
Abi they should carry gun and kill themselves, because of their selfish interest not for d pple.
Soon out senate president,I can see how is leadership of Senate turn is state to best in nigeria

Penguin2:


Same you people who accused Jonathan of marginalization are making this kind of argument today. It’s alright.

Someday when the table turns, I hope you’ll still hold on to this line of argument.

Meanwhile, Southeast is not interested in anything from Tinubu. In fact, both Senate President and Speaker should be zoned to Southwest to help Tinubu succeed.

Yes we complained, he didn't listen and adjust and he lost reelection.

Complain to Tinubu, if he does not listen vote him out, if you can.