A contender for the position of the Senate President in the ninth National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume, has said he won’t step down from the race despite pressure being brought to bear on him.
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The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Monday, met behind closed doors with Senator Ali Ndume at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Deputy Whip of the Senate, Francis Alimikhena, is set to clinch the seat of the Deputy Senate President in the ninth Senate.
Senators-elect on the platform of All Progressives Congress on Wednesday countered Senator Mohammed Ndume’s claims that Senator Ahmad Lawan’s nomination…
The UPP stalwart said the unruliness started from the absurdity that surrounded the formation of the Unity Forum, which teamed up with the Peoples Democratic Party and other political parties in the Senate to deliver Saraki
The group, which boasted the names and signatures of the 34 senators who have endorsed Saraki on May 24, 2015 as the next Senate president, said if the group is sure of the 40 supporters it is claiming to have in the Senate should forward same to the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, as Like Minds Senators have done
He said: “Of the 59 senators of the APC, 35 of us present here today hereby reaffirm our collective commitment and resolution to ensure the candidature of Saraki as the Senate President of the 8th Assembly
But Akume, in his reaction to the proposition at a media briefing in his Abuja residence, said such an idea runs contrary to the complexity and plurality of the Nigerian nation that are always put together through inclusive mechanism represented by zoning formula