Northwest Zone, a group of apc geopolitical zone support groups, has asked the ruling party’s national working committee and the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to revise the national assembly leadership zoning scheme to include north-central to give each segment of the county a sense of belonging.
The coalition also renounced the position of the deputy senate president to the north central, while maintaining the speakership position in the northwest.
The coalition’s coordinator, northwest, Abubakar Ali Bagwai, said that the national assembly’s leadership should not be favored or marginalized.
“We are aware that our zone, the North West, has been given two leadership positions speaker and deputy senate president) by the APC National Assembly zoning arrangement, while the North Central was given none.
”This has created an image of favoritism towards the North West and marginalization against North Central.”