Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), says his party will not waste time filling principal officers
positions in the national assembly.
On Tuesday, Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger
Delta affairs, was elected senate president; while Tajudeen Abbas, a lawmaker
from Kaduna, was elected speaker of the house of representatives.
The principal positions for the majority party to fill in
the senate and house of representatives are leader, deputy leader, chief whip
and deputy chief whip.
Speaking with reporters at the Aso villa on Tuesday, the APC chairman said the party will come up with acceptable choices to present to President Bola Tinubu.
“What is now left for
us, as a party, is to sit and determine the remaining members of the
leadership. Each of these principal officers has got a deputy and of course the
majority leader of each of the chambers,” he said.
“We’re going to sit over this and we want to believe that we
are not going to waste any time whatsoever.
“We will come up with what we’ll give the president to get
his buy-in before it’s made public or before it goes to the national assembly.”
The chairman said it was not an easy task nominating the
presiding officers of the national assembly.
“It wasn’t easy coming to this point, but we thank God
almighty that so much has been done and so much lessons have been learned in
the course of this endeavour,” he said.
“There is time for everything and God is the giver of power
and influence, God has chosen the gentlemen today; president of the senate and
deputy president of the senate and the speaker and deputy speaker of the two
chambers of the national assembly.
“For people who don’t know, for people who are into
constitutional law, the legislature is the first estate and no government can
claim to be stable without ensuring that the national assembly is in state and
that’s what we’ve achieved today.”
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