The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has picked the current Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan for the position of Senate President in the incoming ninth senate.
The selection came at a meeting President Muhammadu Buhari held with APC Senators-elect at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting was attended by the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, APC Senators-elect and eleven serving Governors of the party.
The Governors are of Kebbi, Zamfara, Plateau, Jigawa, Kaduna, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Borno, Yobe and Kogi states.
At the meeting, which lasted for about two hours, Oshiomhole announced the choice of Lawan in the presence of other Senators-elect, including other top contenders for the Senate Presidency seat.
Lawan, a ranking senator from Yobe state, was the preferred candidate of the APC in 2015, but Bukola Saraki, with the support of the Peoples Democratic Party senators, emerged Senate President, a scenario analyst say may be replayed if APC fails to put its house in order.
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