Don’t succumb to pressure, Tinubu, APC NWC urged
A support group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Progressives Foundational Movement (PFM), has advised the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party not to bow to pressure over the choice of leadership of the 10th National Assembly.
The NWC had picked a former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio (South-South), and Senator Barau Jibrin (North West) as preferred candidates of the APC for the senate president and deputy president respectively.
The party equally picked the Member representing Zaria Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, Tajudeen Abbas; and Hon Ben Kalu for the offices of speaker and deputy speaker respectively on the recommendations of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, but the zoning is causing ripples in the party.
In a statement on Sunday in Abuja, the National Coordinator of the APC support group, Barrister Aganaba Johnson, said Tinubu and NWC should not overturn the choice of Tajudeen Abbas as the consensus candidate despite the protests.
Part of the statement reads: “In the history of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Hon Abbas has the highest bills of 78 in the 9th Assembly, he had the third highest bills of 43 in the 8th Assembly and 20 of these bills have been assented to.
“The country must endeavour to sustain the successes recorded in the outgoing 9th Assembly, whereby there are tangible achievements due to the cordial relationship between the executive and legislative arms.”