Abdullahi Ganduje, the governor of Kano State, announced that Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, has been nominated to be the Senate President of the 10th National Assembly.
According to media reports this week, President-Elect Bola Tinubu has chosen a former Niger Delta Affairs minister to oversee the red chamber.
However, following the weekly National Working Committee meeting on Wednesday, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, stated that it would decide on the zoning of national assembly leadership seats after consulting with the president-elect.
But Mr Ganduje, while speaking during a meeting with the governor of Cross Rivers State, Ben Ayade, in Calabar on Thursday, said the decision to nominate Mr Akpabio was already a done deal.
The meeting also had in attendance the chief of staff to the president, Ibrahim Gambari.
“The senate president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will come from the south-south and it is no other person than the former governor of Akwa Ibom,” he said.
“The uncommon governor, the uncommon minister who is going to be the uncommon president of the senate. So we have resolved that.
“I am giving you assurance, we are waiting for the D-Day that he will be the senate President of Nigeria.”
On his part, Mr Ayade expressed gratitude for the choice of Mr Akpabio.
“I want to thank you so much for zoning the Senate President to the south-south and to our brother from a neighbouring state who is also part of Cross River state.
“We want to thank you for this great opportunity because our dream of a Bakassi seaport is becoming very real,” the governor said.
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