After over a month in Paris, France, on vacation after a hectic campaign and enervating election season, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned home Monday proclaiming: “I’m ready for the task ahead.”
One of the major tasks ahead that would arguably shape the impact of Tinubu’s first presidential term is who he helps influence as the next chairman of the National Assembly – or more commonly – the President of the Senate – the 10th Senate in this instance.
The matter of Senate presidency in the United States is a constitutionally cut and dried routine as the country’s vice president serves as the president of its House of Senate and presides over affairs of that august national legislative body. In Nigeria which incidentally cloned the basic template of her presidential democracy from the US – after dumping the Westminster model – it’s a horse of different color.
