Orji Uzor Kalu, the Chief Whip of the Senate, has vowed to continue running for the position of Senate President in the 10th National Assembly.
According to Newsmen, the All Progressive Congress (APC) leadership had selected Jibrin Barau (Kano) and Godswill Akpabio (Akwa-Ibom) as their top choices for the offices of Senate President and deputy, respectively.
Other candidates for the top jobs in the 10th NASS, like Kalu, have been very upset by this development.
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In a recent development, it was reported that Kalu told pressmen in Abuja on Tuesday that he was still running for Akpabio.
He said that instead, he and Abdul’aziz Yari, a former governor of Zamfara and leading candidate for the position who is also dissatisfied with the APC’s zoning policy, are establishing an alliance that would soon be publicized.
He submitted that “I won’t step down for anybody. We are talking with former Governor Yari. Our group and his group are talking, intimate talk and partnership.
“We will make sure that no one zone can produce the Senate presidency. What we are trying to do with Senator Yari is a united partnership that will work for Nigeria.
“In the coming days or weeks, that partnership will be unveiled, so we are in serious talks. I cannot deny it.
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“Yari is a friend of mine and I’m his friend and we have decided to talk. We have been speaking for the past four weeks and the result will be unveiled by our sponsors. He has his sponsors and I have my sponsors.
“So, the sponsors will come together to decide what direction this partnership will be. I’ll be very happy to reveal what the sponsors will say.
“Two of us are thinking of the integrity of the Senate and support President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima who were our colleagues. If you are thinking that what happened during Saraki’s time, it will never happen again.”
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