Withdraw From Race, Support ‘Christian Senate President’, Salihu Lukman Tells Abdulaziz Yari , Barau Jibrin
A Christian should be allowed to become President of the tenth senate to avoid heating up the polity like it was the case sequel to the emergence of the APC Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket last year , National Vice Chairman of the All-Progressives Congress (North-West), Malam Salihu Lukman, has warned.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned Lukman said this in a statement issued in Abuja titled ‘Cash-and-Carry Contest for Leadership of 10th National Assembly.’
While stating the need for the ruling party to zone the position of senate president to either the South-South or South-East for the sake of national unity, he also urged aspirants from the North West including former governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari and Chairman of Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Jibrin Barau, to back out of the race.
‘It is therefore very compelling that the Senate President should come from either the South-South or South-East. I want to specifically note that two respected Senators-elect from North-West have made public declarations of their aspirations for the position of Senate President. These are; His Excellency Abdulaziz Yari and Sen. Barau Jibrin.
Now that power has shifted to the Southern part of the country, as a region, we equally have the responsibility to regulate the conduct of all our Senators-elect from the North-West, including the two Senators-elect Abdulaziz Yari and Barau Jibrin to withdraw their aspiration for the Senate President.
All party leaders from North-West must prevail on these leaders to in the overall interest of the unity and peaceful coexistence of the country withdraw their aspirations to contest the position of Senate President for the 10th Senate. At the most, they should aspire for the position of Majority Leader of the Senate in line with the 1999 zoning formula in the Senate’ he submitted- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
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