Akume, Tinubu Emerge Senate President As APC Moves Saraki's Impeachment

As Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki appeared yesterday before the Code
of Conduct Tribunal over alleged false assets declaration, the ,All Progressives
Congress, APC ,was said to be considering former senate leader, ,George
Akume, wife of the national leader of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu , Senator
Remi Tinubu and two other ranking senators from the South West zone as
Saraki’s replacement.

Apart from Senator Akume who is from the North Central zone and Remi Tinubu,
no other names were mentioned but sources said other two ranking senators
also from the South West are being considered on APC shop list.
Feelers from Abuja reaching Kaduna, the second home of President Mu­
hammadu Buhari revealed that, barring any ast minute change of plan, Saraki
may be asked to resign or if he refused, may be impeached on moral ground to
concentrate on his trial.
National Mirror gathered that, Senator Ahmed Lawan who was anointed by APC
as its sole candidate but lost to Saraki would emerge senate leader from the
North East, since the Speaker is also from the zone.
One of the credible sources explained that, though Saraki and Dogara jettisoned
APC’s ,earlier zoning of National Assembly principal officers which favoured the
north which has both the Senate President and Speaker but that under the new
power sharing deal, South West zone may produce the senate president.
South East and South-South have no APC senators and are already out of the
new deal.
Meanwhile, one of the anti -Saraki’s groups, Northern Ethnic Nationalities Unity
Congress, NENUC, had called on the senate president to resign or face
impeachment over CCT 13 count charges against him.