APC Assembly Forum demands equity in zoning Senate, Reps leadership positions
The APC State Assembly Forum (ASAF) has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, President-elect Bola Tinubu and APC leadership to ensure equity in zoning principal offices in the 10th National Assembly.
The director-general of the forum, Fubara Dagogo, appealed in a letter to APC leadership on Wednesday in Abuja.
The letter, addressed to APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, urged the party’s leadership to balance the lopsidedness in the Senate leadership by zoning its presidency to the North-West.
Mr Dagogo said the North-West remained one of the few zones in the country that had not produced a Senate president since the country returned to democracy in 1999.
According to him, allowing the North-West to produce the 10th Senate president would strengthen APC’s political base and boost the people’s morale in the region.
Mr Dagogo also advocated that the House of Representatives speakership be zoned to the South-East while the South-South should retain the office of deputy Senate president.
He urged APC leadership to consider the South-East for the Senate majority leader, while the North-Central should produce the House majority leader.
Mr Dagogo noted that having produced the Senate president several times in the Fourth Republic, a speaker from the South-East will provide a soothing balm to members from the zone.
He added that it would encourage members to grow the APC with renewed vigour in the zone for future victory at the polls.
Mr Dagogo explained that the forum comprised elected and serving state assembly members on the platform of the APC nationwide and that the platform provides a common platform for the party’s lawmakers at state assemblies to pool resources and share knowledge and experience in a peer-review approach.
(NAN)
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