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10 Senate: Wike backs Akpabio for Senate President

Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has thrown his weight behind the former Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, saying the position for him is a payback time Supporting the ambition of Senator Godswill Akpabio for the office of the Senate President of the 10th Senate, Wike […]

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10th Assembly; Coalition advice APC NWC against zoning principal offices

The Coalition of Progressives APC Stakeholders has advised the party`s National Working Committee (NWC) to discard the purported zoning and micro-zoning of principal officers of the incoming 10th National Assembly. The National Coordinator of the coalition, Dr Alfred Gbaja, gave the advice at a news conference on Monday in Abuja, while speaking on the type […]

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Group insists NASS leadership contest be thrown open

A group, the Democracy Watch Initiative rose from a One-Day Colloquium in Kaduna and insisted that a leadership contest in the National Assembly should be thrown open. The group said Senator Abdulaziz Yari and other contestants for the Senate Presidency be given fair constitutional rights. The group cautioned the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to […]

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10th NASS: Group seeks lawmakers’ support for Betara’s speakership bid

As the jostling for leadership of the 10th National Assembly heightens, a group, Southern Borno Development Association has called on members of the House of Representatives to support the ambition of Muktar Betara, for House of Representatives top seat. The Chairman of the association, Ambassador Dauda Danladi, who disclosed this to journalists at a press […]

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10th NASS: I’ll be Senate President for all Nigerians, not for APC alone — Akpabio

Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, Senator-elect, Godswill Akpabio, APC, Akwa Ibom North West has promised that when he becomes the President of the Senate in June, he would ensure that he provides a leadership that will be an exclusive one, for all Nigerians and not for a particular party. Speaking yesterday […]

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10th NASS: Reverse your zoning proposal, group tells APC

A group, the Oduwa Frontiers, has called on the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee to rescind its zoning proposal. National President of the group, Kolawale Adediji Kazeem, made the call in a statement obtained by Vanguard on Saturday, where they joined the Southern Governors Forum and other concerned Nigerians in calling on the APC-NWC […]

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10th NASS: A zone must have two Presiding officers, Group tells APC, Tinubu

Ahead of the formal announcement of zoning of positions of Presiding officers for the Senate and the House of Representatives by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, a group under the aegis of the All Progressives Congress, APC Integrity Group has asked the Senator Abdullahi Adamu led National Working Committee, NWC to ensure that no […]

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