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Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by miserflirt: 2:20pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
There is palpable tension in the All Progressives Congress (APC), as its National Working Committee (NWC) looks to have decided on a consensus candidate for the plum position of the Senate President in the 8th Senate. The decision by the NWC aims to draw up criteria that would be used to determine the best candidate for the position during the inauguration of the 8th Senate has started generating tension. During its meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari last Tuesday night, the NWC was said to have listed certain critical criteria, which the next Senate President must posses. The meeting, among other agreements, had agreed that the Party’s candidate for the post must come from the geopolitical zone with the second highest number of votes, after the North- West during the Presidential election held on March 28. The Party leadership also agreed that the next Senate President must not have any corruption charges hanging on his or her neck, and should be one of the most ranking senators in the current Fourth Republic. A senator, who attended the meeting, hinted that the leadership of the Party was mandated to, within three days, present the most eligible aspirant as consensus candidate for the post based on the listed criteria during inauguration next week. The two gladiators currently contesting the office of the Senate President are: Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Senator Ahmad Lawan. Two groups, the ‘Like Minds Senators’ and ‘Senate Unity Forum’, who were supporting the candidature of Saraki and Lawan, respectively, had claimed to have secured the endorsement of enough numbers of senators to win the race. While the Saraki camp has compiled and come out with a list containing the names of 34 APC senators- elect, the Lawan loyalists merely claimed that 40 APC senators-elect have endorsed the Yobe senator as their own consensus candidate. The development has crated serious confusion because there are just 59 APC senators-elect that are expected to be inaugurated in the 8th Senate, following the death of Senator Ahmed Zannah last month. Some elected senators, who bared their minds on the burning issue yesterday, expressed fears that the decision of the APC to use criteria that are considered strange to the rules of the Senate and Constitution could be counterproductive. The Party is alleged to have plans to announce its preferred candidate between Lawan and Saraki during a meeting with the senators-elect today in Abuja. But those, who reacted to the issue, urged the leadership of the Party to allow the most popular aspirant to emerge through a due process that would be free, fair, credible and generally acceptable to all concerned. In his reaction, the Coordinator of the Like Minds Senators-elect, Senator Dino Melaye, cautioned the NWC against too much interference in the affairs of the Senate. Melaye maintained that the Senate is guided by rules. www.theunion.com.ng/senate-presidency-consensus-candidate-tears-apc-apart/ |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by Mogidi: 2:25pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
Let them tear themselves to pieces, it was predicted. |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by dickoflife(m): 2:25pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
Ok |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by saintgp(m): 2:40pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
there a high possibility of pdp clinching d plum senate position again....because even wen d concensus candidate must have been selected(obviously based on sentiments just to please some party leaders like asiwaju)d aggrieved senators elect may end up betraying d party during d senate voting/election day |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by erunz(m): 2:44pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
MARRIAGE OF STRANGE FELLOW, CONFUSED SET OF PPLE |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by blonker1: 2:57pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
They will surely tear apart. The new PDP in APC will return back under the umbrella 1 Like |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by Adeyinka12(m): 3:07pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
This thing is getting critical,is gradually getting to tribalism, |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by lawrsmith(m): 3:18pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
miserflirt:united we stand,divided we fall,APC be warn, it is too early to hear this kind story from you guys |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by Nobody: 3:20pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
A party built on lies can never know peace, when the foundation is shaky then the building is living on borrowed time |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by chinchum(m): 3:46pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
it is important that a misconception is corrected, the SW had the second highest number of votes after the NW, it is not the NE as erroneously believed and propagated. |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by KnowAll(m): 3:53pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
Kwara, Benue, Plateau, Kogi & d SW will vote opposition we would see how buhari will win 2019 |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by emmasege: 4:55pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
chinchum:You lied Bro. Go check the data again. GMB won by a narrow margin in five s/west states, while he won convincingly by a wide margin in the north east, particularly in Borno, Yobe, Bauchi & Gombe. |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by OoduaVanguard: 5:04pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
emmasege: You call 2.4million plus votes from the SW a 'narrow margin'? Lol. I bet you GEJ would gladly give an arm and a leg for such a 'narrow margin'. ![]() |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by Nobody: 5:23pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
OoduaVanguard:You need to update your maths, Buhari had 2.5 million votes while Gej had 2 million votes from the SW thus a tiny margin of 500k votes, The votes Kano gave Buhari are nearly four times that margin...The South West was almost evenly split between both parties, so don't rehash history, PDP also had 5 Senators elected from the SW and nearly 15 House Of Rep's members as against nil in 2011 |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by B69U: 5:51pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
Yoruba want to cycle the Office of the President, in case of any unforeseen eventuality. They want number two, three and four position all together, just in case. |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by tociano009(m): 5:53pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
Ok |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by unite4real: 6:07pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
Mogidi: It was also predicted that PDP would win presidential election with land slide victory. That the election would be followed by wide scale violence. |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by emmasege: 7:45pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
OoduaVanguard:Did u pass mathematics at o'level at all?. Get a maths teacher to tell you the difference between 'margin' and 'cumulative' North east came second after d north west in the total number of votes cast & relative proportions of GMB's votes to GEJ's. The figure you quoted (2.4 million) was total votes cast for GMB; it's different from his margin. You may furnish us with the total votes cast for both candidates in the two zones, since you are good at keeping data. |
Re: Senate Presidency: Consensus Candidate Tears APC Apart by chinchum(m): 9:25pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
emmasege: what concerns number of votes gotten by PMP with narrow margin ? ![]() 2015 election by number of votes to pmb ACROSS REGIONS: NW - SW- NE- NC- SS-SE |
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