The South-East deserves the Senate Presidency seat, according to Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, despite the South-South being zoned for the position by the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ubah’s remark came hours after the APC designated the Senate’s top officials, ignoring the South-East region’s demands to have the Senate Presidency assigned to the area.
Senator Ubah insisted that notwithstanding the change, South-East senators had unanimously agreed that the seat should be filled in the region. He added that lawmakers from the region would convene to formalise their arrangements for choosing a candidate.
“That is our position for now,” he stated, mentioning Orji Kalu and Osita Izunaso as potential candidates.
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The representative for Anambra South claimed that if the South-East produced the next head of the upper legislative body, it would aid in preserving national unity.
“As for me and my South-Easterner brethren, we are still very strong contenders for the position of Nigeria’s 10th Senate President. For the time being, that is our stance, he declared on Politics Today on Channels Television.
“So, in the course of consultation, we would continue to update Nigerians about our position. But for now, I am still in this studio, the position of the South-East caucus [of the Senate] is that we are going to contest for the Senate President of Nigeria.”
Senator Ubah claimed that, in order to be fair, there should be a “balance of the equation” in the distribution of key positions in Nigeria, despite the fact that the South-East gave the ruling APC the fewest votes in the 2023 presidential election.
“I think after the presidential election, I think equity demands that we would sit down and look at every region because we are talking about Nigeria.”
“Nigeria is not divided on who brings the vote and who does not bring the vote. Are we not part of Nigeria?” “We need it in order to balance the equation,” the lawmaker added.
