‘A recipe for fractured n’assembly’ — APC group asks party to rescind zoning of leadership positions

Youth Alliance For Progress, a group in the All Progressives Congress (APC), has asked the party leadership to discard the proposed zoning arrangements for the leadership of the 10th national assembly.  

APC had nominated Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, and Abbas Tajudeen, a house of representatives member from Kaduna, as leaders of the 10th national assembly.

Akpabio was nominated for president of the senate while Tajudeen was endorsed for the speaker of the house of representatives.

The party also nominated Barau Jibrin, senator representing Kano north, as deputy senate president, and Benjamin Kalu, a lawmaker from Abia and current house spokesperson, as deputy speaker.

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, had described APC’s zoning arrangement as “unworkable” adding that it “reinforces injustice and enhances inequity”.

He accused “a few individuals with eyes on Aso Rock Power Buttons” of attempting to “cabin” the presidency of Bola Tinubu.

In a statement on Sunday, signed by Isa Pai and Wahab Adeyemi, the APC-YAP asked the party to heed the advice of the Ondo state governor.

The group stressed that ignoring the well-meaning advice of prominent stakeholders like Akeredolu would be a recipe for a fractured national assembly, especially the house of representatives.

The youth group noted that it “stands logic on the head for the party to reward indolence and perpetrate injustice at a time for inclusion and national healing”.

“It is urgent for the party to discard the notion of handpicking officers for the 10th house of reps,” the group said.

“Nigerians are already wary of the party and no attempt should be made to reinforce the idea that the party does not care about party development and democracy.”