The All Progressives Congress (APC) will soon announce nominate lawmakers for other principal offices of the National Assembly, the National Chairman of the party Senator Abdullahi Adamu has revealed.
APC is expected to fill the offices of Majority Leader, Majority Chief Whip and their deputies in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The opposition parties will produce Minority Leader, Minority Chief Whip and their deputies.
Adamu said the party would be more meticulous in the nomination of the other principal officers given its experience in the endorsement of the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
He said the nominations of other principal officers will go through extensive consultation that will culminate in the approval of President Bola Tinubu
“For people who don’t know, for people who are into constitutional law, the legislature is the first estate and no government can claim to be stable without ensuring that the National Assembly is in state and that’s what we’ve achieved today.
“It wasn’t easy coming to this point, but we thank God almighty that so much has been done and so much lessons have been learned in the course of this endeavour.
“There’s time for everything and God is the giver of power and influence, God has chosen the gentlemen today; President of the Senate and Deputy President of the Senate and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the two chambers of the National Assembly.
“What is now left for us, as a party, is to sit and determine the remaining members of the …Each of these principal officers has got a deputy and of course the Majority Leader of each of the chambers.
“We’re going to sit over this and we want to believe that we’re going to waste no time whatsoever; we’ll come up with what we’ll give the President to get his buy-in before it’s made public or before it goes to the National Assembly. This day is very historic”, he said.
He expressed belief the leadership of the Assembly would do well and will work to meet the yearnings and aspirations of the people of the country.
The party chair hailed President Tinubu’s signing of the Student Loan Bill into law, describing it as “an extremely positive step”.
