The All Progressives Congress (APC) Integrity Group says Bola Tinubu, president-elect and the party, should not allow one geo-political zone to produce the senate president and speaker of the house of representatives.
The pressure group, in a statement on Sunday, by Dawu Mohammed and Chisom Nwakanma, coordinator and secretary respectively, said allowing one zone to produce the presiding officers would cause a rift in the party.
They said it was worrisome that the leadership of the party has not been able to come up with a “zoning formula”.
“We have observed the horse trading going on about the presiding offices of the 10th Assembly and we consider it pertinent to advise that two presiding officers should not go to one geo-political zone,” they said.
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“Doing so, we believe, would be injurious to the unity and existence of the party.
“We, also consider it a concern that the NWC of our party had to date not been able to come up with the zoning formula. This situation has led to different interests and agitations that we are witnessing among our elected lawmakers.
“The APC Integrity Group expects that those who take lawmakers to the president-elect for endorsement should do that in the interest of the country and not because of juicy committees and other considerations.
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“The president-elect and the party leadership should know that whatever crisis that comes from the zoning and election of the presiding officers, they are responsible for them.”
The leaders of the group said the office of deputy senate president should be zoned to the north-central since the party “is considering zoning the speaker of the house of representatives to the north-west”.
“For us, what is paramount is a viable 10th national assembly, which we believe could be achieved with proper zoning and competent leadership,” they said.
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