Lobbying for the Senate Minority position among senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from South-South geopolitical zones may have begun.
The party had zoned the Senate Minority Leader to South-South while the North East will produce the deputy.
PDP equally directed that “in consonance with the provision of the Standing Rules of the National Assembly, members will use their various zonal party caucuses to chose party principal officers to enable PDP provide effective opposition in the National Assembly.”
Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Godswill Akpabio, who is now a serving senator, on Wednesday held a marathon meeting with the National Working Committee (NWC) at the PDP National Secretariat.
At a point, the party’s National Vice Chairman (South-South), Dr. Cairo Ojugbo who may have been invited, joined the meeting.
Senator Akpabio, who later spoke to journalists at the end of the meeting, however, said his visit was his “usual consultation with the party on national issues.”
He said the issue of minority leadership was not a question of interest but that of capacity.
“So if I have the capacity my colleagues will decide. In the Senate, everybody is equal but some have been there for a long time like the ranking senators and all that. So when you have the opportunity to be in the red chamber, you have equal rights to aspire for any position but you first have to be sure that your colleagues will be interested in you,” he said.
The former governor added that he is consulting with the party stakeholders across the country and will make appropriate statement at the end of his consultations.
He said the election of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy President of the Senate is good for the democracy.
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