The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the party has, after extensive consultations with critical stakeholders, adopted Senator Ali Ndume and Hon. Umar Mohammed Bago for Senate President and Speaker of House of Representatives, respectively, Igbere TV reports.
Igbere TV reports that the Ninth National Assembly is to be inaugurated today.
The PDP, in a statement issued on Tuesday by its National Secretary, Senator Umar Ibrahim Tsauri, and sent to Igbere TV, said the final resolution on Senator Ndume and Hon. Bago was reached at the end of a decisive meeting of members of the NWC, party leaders, state governors as well as senators and members-elect on the platform of the PDP.
“This decision is in the best interest of the nation, in line with our party’s determination to deepen democracy, ensure a strong and independent legislature, strict compliance with the principle of separation of powers as well as constitutional checks and balances in the polity. “All senators and members-elect on the platform of the PDP are to be guided accordingly,” the party said.
