All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator-elect, Dr Orji Uzor-Kalu has
insisted he will contest the deputy senate presidency in the ninth
assembly.
“Well, I am going to be contesting on the floor of the Senate. I am
waiting for the party to zone and if the party continues to hold it, and
don’t zone it, I will contest on the floor of the house, he said Monday
at the Presidential Villa.”
“I have already endorsed Ahmed Lawan as the Senate president. That is
sacrosanct in my mind and I am appealing to the other parties, let us
have only one candidate in the Senate instead of going to drag about it.
So, we are on course, yesterday(Sunday), when I returned from Venezuela,
Ahmed Lawan was with me in the house and I became the 56th APC Senator
to endorse him and signed. As I am talking to you now we are having two
more people who are in Makka, one senator from Katsina and the other
from Lagos. Fifty eight senators are going to be signing in and we have
the majority to making him, senate president.”
The APC is reported to have zoned the five offices as follows: Deputy
Senate President (South-South); Senate Leader (North-Central); Deputy
Senate Leader (North-West); Chief Whip (South-East/South-West) and
Deputy Chief Whip (South-West/South-East)