Ali Ndume, former senate leader
and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he is still eyeing
the number one position in the senate.
Ndume, who represents Borno south
senatorial district, made this known after meeting with Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo at the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday.
He arrived at Aso Rock around 3pm
before proceeding to Osinbajo’s office for the meeting.
The APC is expected to produce
the next crop of national assembly leaders after emerging with the majority
lawmakers in the two chambers.
A source had revealed that
the party leadership as well as President Muhammadu Buhari have endorsed Ahmad
Lawan as senate president.
But Ndume is still determined to
run against Lawan who took over his position as senate leader after the Borno
lawmaker fell out with Senate President Bukola Saraki.
At the end of the one-hour
meeting with Osinbajo, state house correspondents asked Ndume if he had
withdrawn from the race and he asked rhetorically: “Me?”
He declined to comment on the
issues discussed with the nation’s number two citizen but said he was still
consulting over his bid to head the ninth senate.
“This is not the time to talk now
because I am still holding consultation,” he said.
Last week, the senator rolled out
a nine-point agenda which he said he would implement if elected the next senate
president.
The senator, in the agenda,
promised to make the office of the senate president less attractive by reducing
the unnecessary privileges attached to it.
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