Outgoing Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has declared that the next president of the Senate is former Niger Delta Affairs Minister Godswill Akpabio.
Ganduje disclosed this on Thursday at a meeting with Gove Ben Ayade of Cross River state and Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari Prof. Ibrahim Gambari in Calabar, the state capital.
Ganduje declared that the decision to give Akpabio the position was a forgone conclusion, but did not confirm if it was a decision by the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership.
“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,” he said.
“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
Ayade also declared support 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.”
Akpabio and Orji Kalu, a former governor of Abia state, are among the frontrunners from the south for the senate president seat.
