10th N/Assembly leadership: Many senators in Yari’s camp — Kailani

Ahead of Tuesday’s National Assembly leadership elections, the Director General of the APC Support Groups (AASG), Kailani Muhammad, has said many senators are behind Senator Abdulaziz Yari for the 10th senate presidency.

Kailani told reporters yesterday in Abuja that Yari’s quest for the senate presidency was not that he was against the APC’s preferred candidate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, or any other Southern contestant, but that fairness and equity must come to play.

He said Yari would stabilise the 10th assembly and work with the executive to implement President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s “Renewed Hope” agenda for Nigeria.

APC youths protest N/Central’s exclusion

Meanwhile, the youth wing of the APC has expressed dissatisfaction with the exclusion of the North Central from the leadership arrangement of the incoming 10th National Assembly.

At a press conference held in Kaduna yesterday, the protesters, under the aegis of the APC Voice of Progressive Youths, insisted that Senator Sani Musa (Niger East) was the most qualified to serve as deputy senate president.

Abubakar Ali Bagwai, the national coordinator of the group, appealed to President Tinubu and the APC National Working Committee (NWC) to address the imbalance in the zoning arrangement.

In a related development, the North East Youth Christian Forum has endorsed the speakership bid of Hon Tauddeen Abbas who is angling to lead the 10th House of Representatives.

Leader of the forum, Hon Murtala Ezekiel Jumma, in a statement at the weekend, said Abbas had the legislative experience to lead the house.

Jumma, a former Special Adviser (SA) to former Speaker Yakubu Dogara, said the Christian youths were solidly behind Abbas, noting that no campaign of calumny against him would change their minds.

He said, “We support Hon Tauddeen Abbas 100 per cent because of his capacity and legislative prowess. We believe that he is eminently qualified for that position.”

By Abbas Jimoh, Terkula Igidi (Abuja) & Mohammed Ibrahim Yaba (Kaduna)