Strong indications emerged on Friday that a former Akwa Ibom
State Governor, Senator Godswill Akpabio, may emerge as the
Senate Minority Leader when the upper chamber resumes on
July 21.
A senator, who disclosed the development to Punch correspondent
in Abuja, said Akpabio started making the move immediately after
the announcement of the Peoples Democratic Party’s zoning
arrangement this week.
According to him, two ranking senators, James Manager
(Delta State) and Thompson Sekibo (Rivers State) had expressed
their intention to contest and had emerged as possible contenders.
Manager is a fourth time member of the red chamber, while
Sekibo is on his third term.
Close watchers of developments in the senate had believed that
Manager would automatically become the minority leader following
the decision of former Senate President, David Mark, to decline
interest in the position.
However, Akpabio showed interest in the race last week and was
said to have contacted the incumbent Governor of Akwa-Ibom
State, Udom Emmanuel, and the Governor of Rivers State,
Nyesom Wike, to prevail on the 17 senators of the South-South
to support him.
Punch
No comments:
Post a Comment