LEADERSHIP
Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including the leadership of the party and other bigwigs, are at loggerheads over zoning of principal offices of the incoming 10th National Assembly.
Though the National Working Committee (NWC) has not openly made its position known about the regions these key offices are to be zoned to, LEADERSHIP gathered that stakeholders of the governing party have congregated themselves along regional lines, vowing to tear the party apart if the office of the Senate president or that of the Speaker does not go to their respective zones.
It was learnt reliably that while the contest for the principal offices of the 10th National Assembly billed for inauguration in June is still open to federal lawmakers across the geo-political zones, members of the APC NWC are also torn along zonal lines in terms of who gets what.
But some of the party leaders are insisting that since the executive arm of government would be headed by president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his vice, Kashim Shettima, who are all Muslims, it would only be fair to allow Christians to emerge as Senate president and Speaker of the House respectively.
Some members of the party who are Muslims are angling desperately to become Senate president and Speaker respectively.
In the North West, two Senators, Jubrin Barau (Kano North) and former Zamfara State governor, Abdul Aziz Yari (Zamfara West), are not leaving anything to chance in their bid to become Senate president.
Also, the Senator representing Niger East, Sani Musa, from North Central is also hell bent on clinching the Senate presidency.
