Why I want to be Senate President – Binta Garba

Senator-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Adamawa North Senatorial District, Binta Masi Garba, said unity would be paramount at the upper legislative chamber if she is elected as the first female Senate president.

Binta said as the only female senator from the North, her interest to contest for the office of president of the Senate was meant to bring transparency and openness in the leadership of the red chamber.

The three times member of the House of Representatives from both Kaduna South and Michika/Madagali Federal Constituencies, in Adamawa State, said yesterday, in Abuja, that she has written to all her colleagues and other Nigerians

on the need to support her candidacy to emerge as the first female Senate president in Nigeria.

She said: “Apart from the fact that I’ve held several positions as a lawmaker in the House of Representatives, I am the first female chairperson of any public party in Nigeria, having been elected as the Adamawa State chapter’s chairperson of the APC in April last year. I am still holding that position and the unity I brought to the party brought about the successes we recorded in the recent general elections.

“As a delegate to the National Conference, I served in the committee on political restructuring and forms of

government. I know what Nigerians need when it comes to lawmaking and leadership. It’s time for all to support the female folks to be at the forefront of decision making in Nigeria.”