Senate President: Adamu Garba suggests Sen. Barau Jibrin lead the 10th Assembly

Chinenye Ogbonna April 10, 2023

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Adamu Garba, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has thrown his weight behind Senator Barau Jibrin from the Northwest part of the country to assume the seat of the Senate President.

He said Jibrin should be elected as the Senate President for the 10th Assembly because of his competence and role in Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory during the Presidential election.

This is coming as Former Abia State Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has expressed that it is his turn to be the senate president and also Se. Godswill Akpabio has eyes for the office of Senate President.

Garba said: “So that is why personally, I believe that most of the aspirants of the Senate Presidency knows that there’s no person that’s as qualified as Sen. Barau Jibrin. Why did I say so? This man started his political career in the national assembly in 1999.

“The Red Chamber has been more organized than it has ever been since 1999, because there has been proper structure of working relationships with the executive. And if we’ve this mature leadership that drives this success, why can’t we allow Sen. Barau Jibrin to be able to drive the Office of the Senate President, so that we can have a coordinated and better organized and responsible government that meets the needs and yearnings of Nigerians.

“That’s why I believe that Sen. Barau Jibrin is the most qualified, especially looking at his personal antecedents in public service, and his activities in the Senate as the highest-ranking member.

“Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu gave meagerly Only 8000 votes, but had 40 something thousand votes to himself, in the same election, same people, the same procedure, the same INEC, the same BVAS, in an election held in the same day, within the same state. Now how do you draw such a comparison?

“If you go to Sen. Godswill Akpabio, from the South South, there are reports from several quarters that Senator Godswill Akpabio is nursing the intention of dropping his ambition for a ministerial position.”