Southeast senators refused to approve the senator Akpabio, they said that Tinubu was pushing them away. Godswill Akpabio has been nomina...
Southeast senators refused to approve the senator
Akpabio, they said that Tinubu was pushing them away.
Godswill Akpabio has been nominated to be President of the Senate, but senators who will finish their terms and voters in the South East have said they do not agree with this and will not accept it.
They are very clear that the Senate President should come from the South-East, not the South-South like Akpabio.
After leaving an emergency meeting in Abuja on Sunday, they told everyone about this choice.
Abdullahi Ganduje, who is leaving his job as Governor of Kano State, said that the APC Governors have agreed that Godswill Akpabio will be the President of the Senate if that is not forgotten.
Tinubu is said to have asked Senator David Umahi from Ebonyi to drop out of the race for leader of the House of Assembly. This is why Umahi dropped out.
Orji Kalu, Osita Izunaso, and Patrick Ndubeze are also running from the South East.
"Anyone who shows loyalty to Akpabio chooses to progress to make South-East Saniyare-wareEleven senators from the South-East signed the agreement to decide not to back Akpabio. They said that if Godswill Akpabio is elected, the South-East will continue to be left out of the running of Nigeria.
Then, they asked Tinubu to stop supporting Akpabio and stop playing politics with favoritism.
They said that Tinubu should pick a candidate from the South-East who will back him if he wants to become president of the Senate.
Akpabio is also being attacked from the Northern side, where a group said that Akpabio does not love Northerners or the Northern part of Dungurugum.
Saidu, the leader of the North Residents, said that the group said, "Akpabio doesn't care about the people of the North, so we won't let him be President of the Senate."
The Northern Council of Elders (ACF) has broken ties with a group of people who said they wanted Godswill Akpabio, the former governor of Akwa Ibom, to become President of the Senate.
The leader of the ACF in the south of the country said that the ACF is not part of a group called the "Coalition of Northern Groups," which said it wanted Akpabio to become president of the Senate.
This was said by Saidu on Sunday in Abuja.
He said that Akpabio and Dat were in charge.
We want to make it clear that we are not among the people who want Senator Godswill Akpabio to be President of the Senate. And we have nothing to do with the group called "Coalition of Northern Group," which you say helped Akpabio.
"These groups have not been behind Akpabio in the North.
"No real Northerner will back Akpabio, because he doesn't care about the North.
"We are the ones who know Akpabio and know who he is. We know the people in the South who love the North because we live in the South. The truth is that Akpabio is not one of the people who love the North.
Saidu said that people who said they backed Akpabio either didn't know what they were talking about or were just given money.
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