By Miftaudeen Raji
Senator Ali Ndume (Borno South) has said that Godswill Akpabio’s nomination by All Progressives Congress, APC, National Working Committee, NWC, for the Senate presidency of the National Assembly does not imply his the “anointed” candidate.
Ndume stated this while speaking in an interview on Arise TV‘s Prime Time News on Monday.
Recall that the APC nominated Akpabio for Senate President seat and Abbas Tajudeen as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively.
Reacting, Ndume noted that Akpabio was only a preferred choice of the party, which did not make him the automatic leader of the House.
He added that the senators would still have to vote to determine the leader of the red chamber.
Ndume said, “I don’t think anointed is the right word to use. The APC has Akpabio as its preferred candidate, that would be a better word. Not ‘anointed‘ but ‘preferred candidate’.
“Because if it is anointed then it is fait accompli, which is not the case. We have to go into the chamber and vote, and it can go anywhere.
“Akpabio is going to be first among the equals as President of the Senate. It is going to take the remaining 108 of us to restore integrity to the Senate,” he said.
Source: Vanguard