A
meeting of senior members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, called
to resolve issues concerning the zoning of top offices in the incoming
majority party in the National Assembly ended in a deadlock, Wednesday
night.
The meeting came to a deadlock on account of the
tussle between leaders of the North-East and South-West for the office
of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The
leaders at the meeting, nevertheless, agreed on the zoning of the
office of Senate President to the North-Central and the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, SGF, to the South-East.
Meanwhile,
returning members of the House of Representatives were, yesterday,
understood to have forged a consensus on breaking the deadlock by
throwing up two of the returning members as their choice for speaker and
deputy speaker. Sources in the House confided in Vanguard last night
that the returning members have thrown up outgoing minority leader, Femi
Gbajabiamila and Yakubu Dogara for either speaker or deputy speaker of
the House of Representatives.
Among those that attended the
meeting on Wednesday night at the Rivers State Governor’s Lodge on
Hassan Usman Katsina Street, Asokoro, Abuja were President-elect, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd); Vice-President-elect, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo;
party leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; governors-elect, senators-elect as
well as some executive officers of the party.
Credit: Levinus Nwabughiogu/Vanguard
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