AKPABIO IS FAVORED TO BE SENATE PRESIDENT

Akpabio is favored to be Senate President by Tinubu and the APC National Working Committee, and Tajudeen is preferred to be Speaker

In order to continue consultations on the zoning of the leadership post of the 10th National Assembly, President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu met with the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday.

The National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the Deputy National Chairman for the North, Senator Abubakar Kyari, the Deputy National Chairman for the South, Emma Eneukwu, and the Party's National Secretary, Senator Lyiola Omisore, were reportedly present at the meeting, which was held at the Defence House in Abuja.

According to a trustworthy source who asked to remain anonymous, during the meeting, which lasted approximately one hour and thirty minutes, Tinubu expressed his preference for Senator Akpabio to serve as the 10th Senate President and Senator Jibrin Barau as his deputy.

Abbas Tajudeen was given the go-ahead to lead the 10th House after a compromise was struck on the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The source said: "It is true Asiwaju met with Adamu, Omisore, Kyari and Eneukwu today (Friday). They have agreed that Akpabio will be the next Senate President while Jibrin will be his deputy. TJ (Abbas Tajudeen) will be the next Speaker.)"

The source further stated that the job of Secretary to the Government of the Federation would be awarded to the North Central as compensation.

Remember that on Wednesday, at the conclusion of the NWC meeting, Adamu made a suggestion that the ruling party and the president-elect would reach an understanding regarding the zoning of the leadership roles in the upcoming Assembly.

"That is not what today's meeting is all about. When we do the zoning meeting, we don't just go alone as a party. Zoning is to take along the person who has the mandate of this country, the president-elect, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, we want to take him along. He travelled after the election and he came back only last week and we have to carry him along.

"And we cannot stop those who are ambitious or zoning interests, or individual interests, we cannot deny them. And as long as that is there, we have to find a way, persuasively, to reach some level of consensus. That's what we are working on. It is not a one-day affair," Adamu had said.