APC kicks against northern senators vying for senate presidency

The All Progressives Congress has opposed northern senators vying for the senate presidency.

It insisted that any northerner angling for the leadership of the senate had no respect for the party’s constitution.

On Monday, the national vice chairman of the APC (north-west), Malam Salihu Lukman and the party’s director of publicity, Bala Ibrahim, said for fairness, northern senators contesting the post should step down.

Party chieftains in the south-south and south-east had called for the zoning of the senate presidency to their regions in the spirit of fairness and to give other geo-political regions a sense of belonging in view of the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket adopted by the party.

So far, no fewer than eight senators had indicated an interest in the race.

They include senators Jibrin Barau (Kano central), Sani Musa (Niger east), Orji Kalu (Abia north), and Godswill Akpabio (Akwa-Ibom north-west ).

Others are senators Osita Izunaso (Imo west), Peter Ndubuze (Imo north), Abdul’aziz Yari (Zamfara west), and Ahmad Lawan (Yobe north), amongst others.

But, Lukman called on Yari, Barau and other northern senators to step down from the race for the office of senate president in the 10th national assembly.