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The ongoing bid by the South East geopolitical zone to produce the Senate President in the coming Senate may have suffered setback as President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has rejected any idea of anointing a candidate.
Presidents usually anoint and push a candidate to emerge as Senate President in order to have a harmonious working relationship.
Since Nigeria returned to democracy, every president has had to ensure whoever emerged as Senate President shared his aspiration.
The party with the highest number of elected senators usually produces the Senate president and is often chosen before a presidential letter convening the assembly to set the tone for the next assembly is held.
there was a sharp departure in 2015 when a protracted negotiation in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, led to the emergence of Bukola Saraki, as against the party’s wish.
Saraki, who few years had defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while he was governor of Kwara State clinched the number three position in the land when he teamed up with the opposition PDP to emerge as Senate President.
The negotiations with the PDP led to the emergence of Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President even though he was of the PDP.
It led to a frosty relationship between the red chamber and the executive with most bills suffering passage even as key executive bills experienced sluggish passage. SB E-news.
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