Tinubu Finally Picked His Preferred Candidate For Senate Presidency
Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has been reported to have settled for Godswill Akpabio and Jibrin Barau for the position of the senate president and deputy senate president, respectively.
This was disclosed in a report by Daily Trust, which cited sources closer to the development in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Akpabio, who was a former governor of Akwa Ibom state and Barau, are among the 9 contenders for the presidency of the 10th Senate, which is expected to be inaugurated on June 13.
Sources closer to the development disclosed that Tinubu had revealed his decision to the candidates at a meeting in Abuja.
On Tuesday, April 25, the president-elect met with Akpabio, Barau, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti) and Biodun Oyebanji, the governor of Ekiti.
The sources further disclosed that Tinubu, at the meeting, which the president-elect himself constituted, asked Barau to drop his ambition for the Senate presidency in the interest of fairness, religious balancing and national cohesion.
