President Bola Tinubu, according to the senator-elect for Kwara Central, Mallam Saliu Mustapha, did not force his choice of 10th National Assembly leaders on the legislators.
Mustapha claimed that the President only made an appeal to their sense of reason and left final judgment up to the legislators in his Friday appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
Recall that the ruling party supported Senators Godswill Akpabio and Barau Jubrin for Senate leadership and Messrs. Abass Tajudeen and Ben Kalu for House leadership as part of its zoning arrangement.
“APC has a promise to fulfill to the people of Nigeria.
The President has not forced anybody to say, ‘You must vote Akpabio’. The President has not forced anybody to say ‘You must vote Tajudeen Abbas’. All he has done is to advise and seek our understanding.
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He appealed to us yesterday and said; ‘Please, Gentlemen, I’ll like it if you can do me this favour so as to get my government on a good start’. If he is asking for that favour it is because he knows the capacity of the person in question,” Mustapha said.
The Senator-elect further stated that the President is forward-looking and working on stabilising the country.
“APC had a political solution to win the election in 2023. Now, we’ve sat back. We have looked at the drawing board, we are now looking at the possibility and the options of stabilising and securing the country so as to move the country forward and give others a sense of belonging.”
“It’s about Project Nigeria now. All hands must be on deck. This is the only President so far who has been appealing that whatever has happened in the past, we have to move forward.”
Attesting to the capacity of Akpabio to lead the 10th Senate, Mustapha said he had demonstrated competence while serving as Governor of Akwa Ibom state.
“Everyone who knew Akwa Ibom when it was created out of the old Cross River State, will tell you how he was able to put Akwa Ibom on a very progressive trajectory.”
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