The senator representing Kano North Senatorial District,
Jibrin Barau who is contesting for Senate Presidency, said he will shelve his
ambition if the office is zoned to another geopolitical zone outside the North
West by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said the legislature is a special institution that
requires experience, exposure and capacity to manage the differences among its
members.
Speaking when he was engaged by Parliamentary Advocacy
Network (PAN), in Abuja on Tuesday ahead of the inauguration of the 10th
National Assembly in June, Barau said, some of the rules also confer privileges
on seniority and ranking lawmakers.
“Some of the rules of each legislative body confer on its senior or ranking members certain advantages that exclude new members,” he noted.
According to him, while it is important to have religious
balancing when determining leadership, opined that the parliament should,
however, be treated differently.
Senator-elect from Imo State, Osita Izunaso on his part,
canvassed for a sense of belonging for all the regions, noting that the
diversity of the nation is such that the allocation of government offices should
go round.
Izunaso called for experience, capacity and competence as
the foremost factors that should determine NASS leadership.
He said: “Experience, capacity, competence and other
considerations such as ethnic and religious balancing must be factored into the
leadership selection process at the next National Assembly.”
He also informed that he was presenting himself to his
colleagues at the Senate as a loyal party man, lawyer, erstwhile journalist and
former member of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), for support to become the next President of the 10th Senate.
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