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As the race for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly gathers momentum, a group under the aegis of Women For Yari Movement, has advised the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the National Working Committee (NWC), of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to withdraw it earlier decision of zoning
Recall that the NWC of the ruling party had picked the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio (South-South), and Senator Barau Jibrin (North West) as preferred candidates of the APC for the senate president and deputy president.
But the group in a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, said the zoning list has complicated matters in the APC, among Senators-Elect and Members-Elect of the 10th NASS and generated a huge controversy among Nigerians nationwide.
In her address at the media briefing, Convener, Women For Yari Movement, Comrade Sofiya Ibrahim Ogoh, stated that “the Women For Yari Movement deems it fit to stage this intervention because as mothers to the incoming members of the National Assembly and indeed to all in this country, we cannot sit idly and watch our children cross swords over a totally avoidable crisis.”
“The Women For Yari Movement notes that rather than foster national unity and heal the land after a bitterly fought 2023 General Elections, the APC zoning list has divided further the party and the country.”
The group’s statement entitled, “10th NASS Leadership: APC, Zoning and Mothers As Metaphor” continued: “The Women For Yari Movement states that the APC National Working Committee has failed to heed a great principle of successful motherhood, to wit: A wise and true Matriarch of the House does not play favouritism among her children.
She dishes out motherly care and affection to all her children equally. It is a deliberate and life-long act which engenders peace and harmony in the family, which then allows all members of the household, particularly the children, to live to their fullest potential in the bosom of the true Matriarch.
“Applied in politics in the particular case of electing the leadership of the incoming 10th NASS and specifically the next Senate President, the APC National Working Committee should not have anointed a favourite among the 109 senators as Senate President and for other positions.
To stop the crisis in its wake, the group wrote: “NASS Proclamation Day is still some weeks away. Therefore, it is not too late for the APC National Working Committee to embrace the metaphor of true mothers to stem the crisis engulfing the party over that zoning list, which upsurge, we can assure the party, would continue to rise as May 29, 2023 Presidential Inauguration Day nears for the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to take office.
“Although the APC National Working Committee claimed that the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other critical stakeholders were consulted in the course of drawing up that zoning list, it has since emerged that this is far from the truth, and that a nascent cabal may have formed from the APC NWC and Asiwaju’s inner circle which unilaterally handpicked their friends and zoned the Senate leadership positions to them.
“For instance, the Women For Yari Movement can inform you gentlemen of the press and indeed the whole nation that nothing worthy of being called “consultation” was carried out by the APC NWC among the candidates to lead the Senate.
“That the APC zoning list had only snowballed the Senate leadership tussle into a giant inferno threatening to consume all in its path validates our claim. “Party Supremacy cannot be
a pretext to serve out injustice.
The Women called on the NWC to withdraw the zoning list and allow a free and fair contest for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly .”