Gaya To Orji Kanu, Omo-Agege: S’East, S’South Can’t Produce DSP When N’West That Gave APC 6m Votes Is Left Out

The representative of Kano South Senatorial District, Senator Kabiru Gaya has urged the All Progressives Congress to zone the position of the Deputy Senate President of the 9th Senate to the North West so it can consolidate on the votes it got from the area.

Gaya, who represents Kano South in the Senate, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, adding that the party should not throw away the six million votes it recorded in the North West in the last general election.

The Senator who is aspiring to be the Deputy Senate President of the 9th Senate, said though he does not believe in dropping statistics of senators behind his ambition, he has over 70 per cent chances of emerging.

He said: “My chances are very high, I’m sure, am not bragging, but definitely it is over 70, 80%.”

Gaya, in making reference to the ambitions of former Abia State Governor and Senator-elect, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, said zones that produced only two senators should not be jostling for a major position of leadership in the Senate.

The APC did not do well in the last election in the South East and South South where Kalu and Omo-Agege come from respectively except in the presidential election.

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Gaya, who is a fourth time Senator, said the party should serve those who had served it.
He noted that the APC won the 2019 presidential election because of the person of President Muhammadu Buhari and the votes from Kano State especially.

He said: “The reason I’m saying nobody should produce Deputy Senate President rather than the North-West is because we have produced 6 million votes and in politics, you don’t throw away your strong hold.”

Gaya maintained that the party’s victory at the last elections was made possible because of Buhari and the Kano State factors, adding that Kano alone gave the party 1.4 million votes out of six million registered voters.

He said: “So, what we are saying is that if we could give speaker to the South West, I see no reason why we can’t get Deputy Senate President in the North.

“If we say we have the president, fine, South has the Vice President, I believe it is better we consolidate on our positions now.

“If you give other zones positions, and deny North-West which had the highest number of votes, that would not be good, it means you want to throw away 6 million votes.”

The Senator added that zoning the Deputy President the Senate to the North West would attract the other two zones to work hard for the APC, especially as Buhari had done a lot for states in the zones.

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He added: “Though with the present record we now have 17 Senators, which is unfortunate, but you cannot give Deputy Senate President to where you have only two senators.”

(Story culled from TheEagle Online except Headline)