The groups described the appointment and announcement of Godswill Akpabio and others for leadership positions in the upcoming national assembly as a rape of democracy.
In a statement released on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, after the groups press conference in Abuja, Dauda Yakubu, the group’s national president said the sharing of the position of the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker, and Deputy Speaker is an anomaly.
The statement reads in part, “We were therefore shocked to read reports that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has come up with a zoning template and even went further to rub salt on injury by attaching names to the positions of principal officers — Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and all other offices of the National Assembly”.
