Of course, the National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and the National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, had warned their party men and women that the game was a winner-takes-all, thus making it clear to the opposition parties in the legislature that there was nothing to share with the majority party in the choosing of principal officers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
There is really nothing altruistic in the insistence of the APC leadership that Senator Ahmed Lawan must be elected the next president of the Senate. And in the same vein, there is no overriding national interest recommending Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as the next speaker of the House of Representatives. Both men are qualified for the different positions – just like their other colleagues!
If the APC leadership can pretend that it zoned the Senate presidency to the Northeast, and not to Ahmed Lawan, there is no room for such pretence in the alleged zoning of the speakership to Gbajabiamila. And the reason is quite obvious for even a blind man to see. Whereas the entire Northeast has nothing to hold on to so far, the Southwest region already has in its kitty the office of the vice president.
Let nobody be deceived by the propaganda that there are precedents in the past justifying the simultaneous holding of the offices of the vice president and speaker by a particular zone. Yes, in 1979, Chief Alex Ekwueme from Anambra state was the vice president while Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke from the same state was the Speaker of the House.
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