APC nor come play ooo....The result of the National Assembly
election declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission on
Tuesday has pushed the opposition All Progressives Congress to the
majority status in the 109 membership Senate.
Before the election, the Peoples
Democratic Party enjoyed the majority status in the red chamber with 64
members while the APC has 41. Other parties, like the Labour Party, the
Accord Party and the Social Democratic Party, shared the remaining five
seats.
The APC will now have 64 senators; the PDP, 45; and the Labour Party, one.
The development, our correspondent
observed, will obviously alter the configuration of the Senate
leadership in the 8th Senate which would be inaugurated in June this
year, because the opposition APC which is currently in the minority,
would constitute the principal officers.
For instance, the current Senate
President, David Mark who is returning to the Senate for the fifth time,
will lose his seat to an APC member while the change in gear will also
affect other principal officers like the Deputy Senate President, Senate
Leader, Deputy Senate Leader, Chief Whip; and Deputy Chief Whip.
Apart from Mark and his deputy, Ike
Ekweremadu who won the election to return to the Senate, other principal
officers like the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma -Egba; his deputy, Abdul
Ningi; Chief Whip, Bello Gwarzo; and his deputy, Hosea Agboola, all lost
their bid to return.
The current configuration is set to
automatically transform the status of the APC members, especially the
principal officers from minority to the majority.
For instance, the Minority Leader,
Senator George Akume, according to sources, may likely emerge the new
senate president, although some of his colleagues believed that another
ranking senator should be elected since Mark, his kinsman from Benue
man, would be relinquishing the seat after eight years.
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