Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Senate Presidency: fissures in N-East Senate caucuses
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ABUJA-The Senate bid by the North-East caucus in the senate president grap the North Central area has suffered a serious setback yesterday after Senator classification area dumped the offer by the prospective elected senator Danjuma Goje for the incumbent, Senator David Mark.
The rebound of Marc bid for the post of chairman of the Senate came as the group of cells raised by the campaign Mark yesterday stepped up its hunt for support for new senators.
Approximately 82 new senators are expected to join the ranks of the 27 sitting senators who were elected estimated in the April Senate last.* Mark David
Also yesterday, the Forum elected senators led by Rep. Ita Enang, Akwa Ibom, yesterday said the body would comply with the policy of the DPP's current zoning for the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Senate and Senators do not support ranking for the two main stations in the Senate.
The forum, scheduled to meet in Abuja tomorrow to "look-ahead" of the next Senate in the words of Enang, postponed the meeting on Saturday.
Tomorrow's meeting was disrupted by the issuance of certificates being returned to the Senators elected.
The opposition mainly to the unprecedented ambition of Senator Mark for a second term as chairman of the Senate came from the north-geo-political canvassing is the rezoning of the post by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to North.
Meanwhile, the group of cells, said it is canvassing support for Mark said reaching out to new senators elected with Senator Mark having one-on-one with a number of them that have surfaced Abuja networking.
A number of them are said to be networking for positioning itself in strategic committees.
Although no candidate from the North came out for the office, the outgoing governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Danjuma Goje, is considered the leading candidate of the geopolitical area.
Goje last April was elected to represent the central senatorial Gombe.
The rebound of Marc bid for the post of chairman of the Senate came as the group of cells raised by the campaign Mark yesterday stepped up its hunt for support for new senators.
Approximately 82 new senators are expected to join the ranks of the 27 sitting senators who were elected estimated in the April Senate last.* Mark David
Also yesterday, the Forum elected senators led by Rep. Ita Enang, Akwa Ibom, yesterday said the body would comply with the policy of the DPP's current zoning for the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Senate and Senators do not support ranking for the two main stations in the Senate.
The forum, scheduled to meet in Abuja tomorrow to "look-ahead" of the next Senate in the words of Enang, postponed the meeting on Saturday.
Tomorrow's meeting was disrupted by the issuance of certificates being returned to the Senators elected.
The opposition mainly to the unprecedented ambition of Senator Mark for a second term as chairman of the Senate came from the north-geo-political canvassing is the rezoning of the post by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to North.
Meanwhile, the group of cells, said it is canvassing support for Mark said reaching out to new senators elected with Senator Mark having one-on-one with a number of them that have surfaced Abuja networking.
A number of them are said to be networking for positioning itself in strategic committees.
Although no candidate from the North came out for the office, the outgoing governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Danjuma Goje, is considered the leading candidate of the geopolitical area.
Goje last April was elected to represent the central senatorial Gombe.
