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Nigeria - The North-East caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators, yesterday after holding a meeting distanced itself from the aspiration of Senator Ahmad Lawan to emerge as the next Senate President, according to Daily Post.
According to the caucus leader, Senator Danjuma Goje from Gombe State, what was before the North east was how to persuade APC leadership to consider the region for the “highest position in the National Assembly" and urged the public to disregard adoption of any one for any position.
"The caucus urges the public and distinguished colleagues nationwide and indeed, everybody, Nigerians and non-Nigerians to completely disregard any purported endorsement of any Senator from the North East by any zone because zoning of posts by APC has not been formally done yet.
“We are waiting for our formal zoning of the various posts of the national assembly before we commence nomination and we believe that any post zoned to us must have our input as the caucus and then, we consult with other caucuses, party leadership and indeed, other stakeholders before arriving at a decision.
“We should completely disregard any endorsement of any of our member here or absent. We do not know anything about it, we do not support it, we disassociate ourselves completely from it.”
“What we are saying is that we, the North East caucus, formally disassociate ourselves from any endorsement from any other zone.
“Other zones have the right to decide what they want but we in the North East are not associating ourselves with those so-called endorsements because the party has not zoned anything to us.
“It is after the zoning has been announced that we will sit down and nominate our candidates that we feel are capable and suitable to represent the zone.
“But we cannot stop others from doing what they want, all we are saying is that we are not part of it. We have nobody in mind yet, we have not decided anything because we do not know what is coming to us. We do not want to jump the gun”, Goje affirmed.
#Nigeria #Senate #Lawan
According to the caucus leader, Senator Danjuma Goje from Gombe State, what was before the North east was how to persuade APC leadership to consider the region for the “highest position in the National Assembly" and urged the public to disregard adoption of any one for any position.
"The caucus urges the public and distinguished colleagues nationwide and indeed, everybody, Nigerians and non-Nigerians to completely disregard any purported endorsement of any Senator from the North East by any zone because zoning of posts by APC has not been formally done yet.
“We are waiting for our formal zoning of the various posts of the national assembly before we commence nomination and we believe that any post zoned to us must have our input as the caucus and then, we consult with other caucuses, party leadership and indeed, other stakeholders before arriving at a decision.
“We should completely disregard any endorsement of any of our member here or absent. We do not know anything about it, we do not support it, we disassociate ourselves completely from it.”
“What we are saying is that we, the North East caucus, formally disassociate ourselves from any endorsement from any other zone.
“Other zones have the right to decide what they want but we in the North East are not associating ourselves with those so-called endorsements because the party has not zoned anything to us.
“It is after the zoning has been announced that we will sit down and nominate our candidates that we feel are capable and suitable to represent the zone.
“But we cannot stop others from doing what they want, all we are saying is that we are not part of it. We have nobody in mind yet, we have not decided anything because we do not know what is coming to us. We do not want to jump the gun”, Goje affirmed.
#Nigeria #Senate #Lawan
