Nigeria’s current Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has reportedly drawn a battleline with the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the leadership of the APC over the choice of his successor.
Lawan who tried to wrestle the presidential ticket of the party from Tinubu through a series of underhand subterfuge, has made public his opposition to Senator Godswill Akpabio, the South-South candidate who appears to have won the support of most as a choice that ticks all the boxes including the party’s quest to ensure religious and geopolitical balance.
The Senate President reportedly marched to the residence of the president-elect upon his arrival from France to warn him to abstain from the leadership contest, a bizarre demand given Tinubu’s newly-acquired status as the leader of the party and obvious political interest in ensuring that the new leadership of the National Assembly will not prove an obstacle to achieving his governance agenda.
