Just in: Group asks Akpabio to step down for opposition A pro-democracy group known as the Co

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Just in: Group asks Akpabio to step down for opposition

A pro-democracy group known as the Coalition for Parliamentary Democracy (CPD) has asked Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs and former Governor of Akwa-Ibom state, to abandon his senate president ambition for Abdulaziz Yari, a former governor of Zamfara.
Yari has insisted on contesting the position, even though Akpabio is the preferred candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Also, Orji Uzor Kalu, chief whip of the senate, and Osita Izunaso, a former national working committee (NWC) member of the APC, have insisted on running.

In a statement on Wednesday, Menike Johnson, CPDs national coordinator, said senators-elect interested in running for senate president should show capacity and not rely on zoning.

Johnson said imposing (in quote )Akpabio on the senate is not in the interest of the Nigerians
He said,
CPD in tandem with other pro-democracy organisations insists that those interested in the office of the senate president should rather marshal their agenda to Nigerians and senators-elect and not rely on retrogressive and sectional arguments of zoning.

He also added that
They should not rely on external endorsements which is undemocratic, promotes mediocrity, incompetence and breeds a corrupt and rubber stamp parliamentary leadership that cannot serve the interest of the people.

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