Yariman Bakura Endorses Akpabio, Barau For Senate Leadership

The aspirations of Senators Godswill Akpabio and Jibrin Barau, Senate President and Deputy Senate President hopefuls, on Monday received a major boost with their endorsement by former governor of Zamfara state, Ahmad Sani Yariman Bakura

The Spectacles report that, Borno South senator, Ali Ndume has said yesterday that the All Progressives Congress has secured the support of 69 out of 109 senators-elect for Senate President aspirant Godswill Akpabio and Deputy Senate President aspirant Barau Jibrin.

The Borno lawmaker said the 69 Senators-elect are members of the ‘Stability Group’ and have already appended their signatures for their aspiration.

Two among the few senators-elect have given indication as to who will be the next Senate President when the incoming 10th National Assembly is inaugurated on June 13, 2023.

Senator-elect from Zamfara State, Sahabi Ya’u Kaura, told journalists on the sidelines of an induction programme organised for Senators and Members-elect for the 10th National Assembly at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, that as far as he and many of the Senators-elect on the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) were concerned, the zoning arrangement on the presiding officers of the next Senate made by the party was unknown to them.

Ya’u, who has queued behind the aspiration of Zamfara West Senator-elect, Abdul’aziz yari, said: “I read about the zoning arrangement in the papers like other people. Nobody has discussed such a plan with us and in any case, Senators-elect are the ones to decide who they want as President or Deputy President.”

Another senator-elect, Sulaiman Kawu Sumaila of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) openly declared on live television that the APC arrangement was an insult on the parliament, saying Yari remains his candidate for the office of Senate President.