Strong indications emerged on Friday that a former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Senator Godswill Akpabio, may emerge as the Senate Minority Leader when the upper chamber resumes on July 21. Akpabio is a first time senator.
A senator, who disclosed the development
to our correspondent in Abuja, said Akpabio started making the move
immediately after the announcement of the Peoples Democratic Party’s
zoning arrangement this week.
According to him, two ranking senators,
James Manager (Delta State) and Thompson Sekibo (Rivers State) had
expressed their intention to contest and had emerged as possible
contenders.
Manager is a fourth time member of the red chamber, while Sekibo is on his third term.
Close watchers of developments in the
senate had believed that Manager would automatically become the minority
leader following the decision of former Senate President, David Mark,
to decline interest in the position.
However,
Akpabio showed interest in the race last week and was said to have
contacted the incumbent Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, and
the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, to prevail on the 17 senators
of the South-South to support him.
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