By Abubakar Liman
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Senator Sani Musa of the All Progressives Congress, representing Niger East senatorial district in the upper chamber, has said he will wait for his party to unfold her zoning arrangement before formally declaring his intention or whether or not to contest for the Senate Presidency in the 10th Assembly.
He stated this on Tuesday while he was asked to make clarification about the romour making rounds that he intends to run for the Senate Presidency by online journalists.
The Niger Senator said he is yet to make formal declaration because as a party loyalist and party man he believes in the supremacy of the party and the National Working Committee (NWC) under the chairmanship of his Excellency Distinguish Senator Abdullahi Adamu has advised all those with intention and ambition to wait till when the party zones various offices.
But be it as it may, it does not foreclose us from making our intent known and I actually intend to go for the office of the senate president if it is zoned to North Central and if it is not zoned to the north Central and it happens that the office of the Deputy Senate President is zoned to the north Central, then that’s the office I’ll go for.
Senator Musa said his reason for putting that caveat is because we are in a secular state. Nigeria is a secular country where there’s freedom of association just as there is freedom to your fate and as we happen to have a president elect that is a Muslim; a vice president elect that is a Muslim, how will it look if we have a senate president that is a Muslim and speaker that is a Muslim, we have a chief judge that is a Muslim. Where’s the secularity, where is the equity in leadership?
As far as I’m concern I believe that we should have a spread of power.
It is interesting to note that all those that are aspiring at the moment are all qualified and competent for the job and I believe we should give the party some space so that they will be able to unite this country, because there’s no better time that we want unity than now.
