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APC can’t decide zoning without Tinubu – Adamu

Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told journalists seeking the outcome of the party’s Wednesday meeting that decision on zoning of national assembly offices couldn’t be taken in the absence of the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Tinubu is currently on a two-day visit to Rivers state for the commissioning of specific infrastructure done by the outgoing Governor Nyesom Wike.

In the light of his absence from the APC meeting, Adamu clarified the party didn’t intend discussion on zoning.

“When we want to do zoning, we don’t just go alone as a party, ” he said, adding that the meeting was equally unifying.

The zoning of national assembly leadership seats has been topical within and outside the ruling party. Some section of the party faithful are agitating that the Senate presidency be zoned to either the South-south or south-east for political balancing.

Those expressing the line of thought also favour that the would-be southerner who would eventually occupy the position must be a Christian, since the president-elect and vice president-elect are southern and northern Muslims respectively.

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TheCornet reports that Nigeria operates a distributive federalism in which it unofficially rotates political power and appointments along her ethnic and religious groupings for balancing and inclusivity.

 

 

 

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