Immediate past Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has accused persons opposed to the zoning of the Senate presidency to the Southsouth of deliberately laying a stumbling block for President Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the National Assembly.
Wike insisted that anybody, who wants the Tinubu-led government to succeed would work to ensure the emergence of the next Senate President from the Southsouth as determined by the President and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership.
A statement signed by Wike’s Media Aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said the former Governor spoke in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
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He said: “There is something going in the country now about the Senate presidency and the House leadership, and everybody knows my position. My position is that the (Senate) presidency should come to the South-South. We are not talking about the presidency of the country now, we are done with that.
“If you agree that (Senate) presidency should go to the south, tell me the truth, where should it go? It can’t be in the Southwest. It can’t be in the Southeast. Southsouth has only produced one Senate president, far back in 1979, Joseph Wayas. Southeast has produced over seven.”
He said that those, who earlier fought against Tinubu’s presidential ambition were still hellbent on laying stumbling blocks for him at the National Assembly through their opposition to his preferred choice of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the next Senate President.
He said: “The party (All Progressives Congress) and the President appear to have a soft spot for Akpabio. I would have thought that people will say, look allow this administration to start on a very good foundation, so nobody gives us excuses that why this administration could not start on good footing is because of the rancour between the executive and the legislature.”
The former Governor maintained that if there is no cordial relationship between the leadership of the National Assembly and the presidency, the country will be distracted by the unnecessary power conflict between the executive and the legislative branches of government.
“If Mr. President doesn’t have a smooth administration, at the end of the day, who suffers? Is it not Nigerians? Let us believe that we are all one, let us give everyone a sense of belonging”, he said
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