Senate, Reps Principal Officers: No Decision  Yet On ‘Zoning Arrangement’ –Senator Lola Ashiru

While a certain ‘zoning arrangement’ and names of potential principal officers of the senate and the House of Representatives  had been bandied about since  last week, a member of the Nigerian Senate, Architect Lola Ashiru,   has clarified and asserted that no decision had been taken yet  on which geo-political zone would get what.

Taking questions from reporters including  Team@orientactualmags.com after casting his ballot in Offa   on Saturday, Senator Ashiru ,  a member of the ruling APC, who would be retaining his parliament seat in the tenth senate, said  leaders of  the party will take a decision on the issue at the appropriate time.

‘No,  there was nothing like that actually the last meeting we had  as a caucus  which was attended by all the party’s apparatus ,we were cautioned   against struggling among ourselves  and urged to wait for the party’s decision,  the party will take a decision on what would be the zoning arrangement but I want to clarify that  nothing of such  has been done  yet, we are awaiting  the decision of the party leaders because we are loyal party members  we want our party to succeed we want a seamless operation  in the next dispensation’ he said.

Commenting on what the situation was  during the presidential and national assembly elections and what it was yesterday , the senator  said the  enthusiasm was on the top  during the presidential and national assembly elections being the first lap of the general election and ‘it was a controversial one because there was thickness of   competition between the various parties but  today  there is dominance of the ruling party and the competition was not as it was during the last elections’ adding that   ‘what we expect today is dominance of one party  and probably a lower turnout’ .

He has also predicted victory for his party.

‘Certainly our party  will be victorious, it is going to be a win for APC at all the polling stations in Offa .

Many who live outside the state had come home to vote  and they  had planned their itineraries  but  due to the earlier postponement they are not as energetic and enthusiastic  as they were before so that is  why we may have a reduced quantity  but proportion- wise we are going to have a bigger percentage’ he submitted .

The senator has  also promised to  maintain the tempo of quality representation in the next legislative session.

 ‘We have a lot of residuality  in terms of the ongoing infrastructure projects,  I will take  them to completion as a member of the tenth senate,  developing countries are so deficient when it comes to infrastructure ;road, water  almost in all aspects of life,  we have spent the last four years  rebuilding what were the failures of sixteen years, we are rebuilding and we are going to double our efforts  in respect of this’ he added- Team@orientactualmags.com
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