News: APC wins 64 seats in the house of Senate

The result of the National Assembly election declared by
the Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday
has pushed the opposition All Progressives Congress to
the majority status in the 109 membership Senate.
Before the election, the Peoples Democratic Party enjoyed
the majority status in the red chamber with 64 members
while the APC has 41. Other parties, like the Labour Party,
the Accord Party and the Social Democratic Party, shared
the remaining five seats.
The APC will now have 64 senators; the PDP, 45; and the
Labour Party, one.
The development, our correspondent observed, will
obviously alter the configuration of the Senate leadership in
the 8th Senate which would be inaugurated in June this
year, because the opposition APC which is currently in the
minority, would constitute the principal officers.
For instance, the current Senate President, David Mark who
is returning to the Senate for the fifth time, will lose his seat
to an APC member while the change in gear will also affect
other principal officers like the Deputy Senate President,
Senate Leader, Deputy Senate Leader, Chief Whip; and
Deputy Chief Whip.
Apart from Mark and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu who won
the election to return to the Senate, other principal officers
like the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma -Egba; his deputy,
Abdul Ningi; Chief Whip, Bello Gwarzo; and his deputy,
Hosea Agboola, all lost their bid to return.
The current configuration is set to automatically transform
the status of the APC members, especially the principal
officers from minority to the majority.
For instance, the Minority Leader, Senator George Akume,
according to sources, may likely emerge the new senate
president, although some of his colleagues believed that
another ranking senator should be elected since Mark, his
kinsman from Benue man, would be relinquishing the seat
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