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The Elephant Is Big Enough To Share – President Tinubu Tells Senators-Elect To Accept APC Zoning

On the eve of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, Tinubu made the call while addressing over 43 APC senators-elect led by Senator Akpabio at the Aso Rock Villa.

Senate candidates running on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have been urged by President Bola Tinubu to accept the party’s 10th National Assembly leadership zoning arrangements, with Tinubu claiming that the “elephant is big enough for all members to have a share.”

Ahead of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, Tinubu made the call while addressing over 43 APC senators-elect led by Senator Akpabio at the Aso Rock Villa.

 

Keep in mind that Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, was the APC’s favoured choice for Senate President, and that Senator Jibrin Barau, a lawmaker from Nigeria’s northwestern region, was tapped to serve as his deputy.

As part of his administration’s Renewed Hope strategy, Tinubu fervently urged the newly elected senators to follow the party’s zoning structure while choosing their presiding officers.

“At this point in our history and challenges facing us as a new administration, all hands must be on deck to salvage the unpalatable situation facing the nation,” Tinubu was reported as saying by Daily Post.We need to look at this as a project for the entire country of Nigeria, with the government and the legislature working together to find solutions to the problems facing the country.

His argument is that the executive and legislative branches must work together to solve the country’s many pressing issues, which neither can do on their own.

Tinubu continued by urging the senators-elect in attendance to reach out to their absent colleagues and make the same plea for them to toe the party line and rein in their own ambitions in favour of the party’s plan and the national interest.

“Have conversations with your coworkers who aren’t here to toe the party line and encourage them to help the Renewed Hope agenda succeed. All members, and indeed all Nigerians, will be able to share in the Renewed Hope when the time comes because “the elephant is big enough.”

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