Senate Presidency Lawan’s Men Regroup, Begin Consultation — Leadership Newspaper

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Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly members, a group working hard to ensure that the present Senate Leader and senator-elect for Yobe North, Ahmed Lawan, becomes the president of the upper house and chairman of the National Assembly has emerged.

LEADERSHIP Sunday reports that the cluster group, which has members cut across various political parties, has begun consultations amongst the senators-elect, party officials and other stakeholders.

The group, which had mapped out plans on how it would relate with the executive and the judiciary arms of government if it emerged winner, disclosed that even though it believed in party supremacy, the APC, which has majority among the senators-elect, would not allow what happened in 2015 to happen again.

 

APC won a commanding majority in the 9th Senate that will be inaugurated on June 9, 2019 and the battle for who becomes the chairman of the Senate president and the speaker of the House of Representatives is gathering…



Source: Leadership Newspaper