Breaking news: Senate May Elect Minority Leader from Plateau
● Osun, Abia, Kano to produce other minority officers
By Elem Kash
Senator Godswill Akpabio, President of the Senate ready to midwife the election of other leaders of the Senate.
A Senator from Plateau State is most likely to be elected as the Minority Leader of the 10th Senate, the Port Harcourt Telegraph has learnt through impeccable sources.
The publication has also gathered that the remaining minority positions which include that of the Deputy Minority Leader, Minority Whip and Deputy Minority Whip will be filled by Senators from Osun, Abia and Kano states respectively.
Port Harcourt Telegraph checks indicate that the Plateau-born Senator favoured by his colleagues to occupy the Minority Leader seat is gathering a lot of momentum.
Our information is that no less than 30 signatories have so far endorsed him as the next Minority Leader.
“We are good to go”, a Senator told this publication under anonymous conditions, “we have gathered sufficient signatories. We are truly good to go.”
Howecer, Senator Aminu Tambuwal is parading as the official candidate of the PDP for the position of Minority Leader.
But it is almost certain, going by the mood in the Senate, that the aspiration of Tambuwal backed by Atiku Abubakar, former presidential candidate and a handful of NWC members of the PDP might not fly.
A letter indicating PDP’s interest in Tambuwal has been despatched to the Senate President, Sen Godswill Akpabio.
Akpabio may be obligated to read the letter to Senators at plenary but that is where all that will end, insiders say.
On the floor, Senators will take destiny into their hands and elect those who will lead them.
Already, APGA has clearly indicated that its elected representative will not be backing Tambuwal.
The standing rules of the Senate as revised does not in any way entertain the kind of influence that political parties would like to wield in the choice who occupies office in the red chamber.
The rules rather reserve the issue of the selection of in-house officers to Senators who are expected to choose from among themselves who will lead them.