72 former senators trust Akpabio And Barau to be the next president of the Senate. Senator Godswill Akpabio and Senator Jibril Barau ...
72 former senators trust Akpabio And Barau to be the next president of the Senate.
Senator Godswill Akpabio and Senator Jibril Barau were chosen as the President of the Senate and his Deputy in the 10th House by the 72 past members of the Federal Parliament.
Good Governance Initiative (GGi), a group that supports a candidate for Senate president, did not agree with the decision made by the former senators. They said that the decision was humiliating and did not follow the political process.
Peter Obi's case won't be heard by the Supreme Court until Wednesday.
The former senators said that they were told to make their decision because there needed to be political fairness in how the regions of Nigeria were run.
Senator Basheer Lado, convener and head of the Independent Senators Association, told journalists in Abuja on Monday that former members of parliament want the leadership of the senate to move back to the South-South political zone.
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