The outgoing Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has declared the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio will be Nigeria’s next Senate President after the party concluded its consultations.
Ganduje made this known while speaking in Calabar, the Cross River State capital during a courtesy visit to his Cross River counterpart, Prof. Ben Ayade.
The Kano governor, who was accompanied by the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Gambari declared with confidence that the decision to nominate Akpabio was already a done deal and was only a matter of time.
He, however, did not specify if it was a decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership as being widely speculated.
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‘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.
‘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,’ Ganduje said.
While commenting on the decision, the outgoing Governor of Cross Rivers, Ayade expressed sincere gratitude for the choice of 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,’ the governor said.
‘We want to thank you for this great opportunity because our dream of a Bakassi seaport is becoming very real.’
Africa Today News, New York reports that Akpabio and Orji Kalu, a former governor of Abia state, are among the front runners from the south for the Senate President seat.