Yari meets Buhari, says North deserves Senate presidency
A former governor of Zamfara state and elected senator, Abdul'Aziz Yari, Sunday night in Abuja urged the ruling All Progressives Congress to "reward performance" and not consider ethnicity or religion when zoning key offices of the 10th National Assembly.
"I advise the party to reward performance, not religion, because religion is not in the Constitution of Nigeria, and it is not in our manifesto and our constitution," said Yari said briefly. after an audience with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired), at his official residence at State House, Abuja.
Yari, who is one of the newly elected senators vying for the presidency of the Senate, argued that the North, being the biggest contributor of votes to ensure the victory of the All Progressives Congress in the February 25 presidential elections, should be offered the opportunity to train the next helmsman of the Senate.
“Everyone knows the role we played, despite the fact that other people think we have ours. But we voted to the party line, which gave the APC the leeway it needed to regain the presidency.
"Therefore, we say that the party must do the right thing. And those who walk around saying "Muslim-Christian", should be very careful. Our education in politics is more than this now.
"They must not overheat the party polity with religion. If the APC goes along with religion, the people of northern Nigeria who made the real vote, they will be annoyed and they will lose hope and faith in the APC. And that is the truth,” he said.
Yari added that the APC must exercise caution in its next move as the party no longer has the numbers it had in the past.
He said: “The 10th Assembly is a completely different Assembly from the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. Usually any party that has a majority has a two-thirds majority most of the time, but our own case is completely different. For what? Because in the House of Representatives, I told him (the president) that the minority had the largest number there, they have 182. Whereas our party has 178. In the Senate, where we used to from having 65, 70, we now have 59 and the opposition has 50.
“When the party makes a decision, it must take this into account and see how it is going to be done. Because at the end of the whole exercise, whatever happens, we firmly believe that the election must take place in both houses."
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A former governor of Zamfara state and elected senator, Abdul'Aziz Yari, Sunday night in Abuja urged the ruling All Progressives Congress to "reward performance" and not consider ethnicity or religion when zoning key offices of the 10th National Assembly.
"I advise the party to reward performance, not religion, because religion is not in the Constitution of Nigeria, and it is not in our manifesto and our constitution," said Yari said briefly. after an audience with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired), at his official residence at State House, Abuja.
Yari, who is one of the newly elected senators vying for the presidency of the Senate, argued that the North, being the biggest contributor of votes to ensure the victory of the All Progressives Congress in the February 25 presidential elections, should be offered the opportunity to train the next helmsman of the Senate.
“Everyone knows the role we played, despite the fact that other people think we have ours. But we voted to the party line, which gave the APC the leeway it needed to regain the presidency.
"Therefore, we say that the party must do the right thing. And those who walk around saying "Muslim-Christian", should be very careful. Our education in politics is more than this now.
"They must not overheat the party polity with religion. If the APC goes along with religion, the people of northern Nigeria who made the real vote, they will be annoyed and they will lose hope and faith in the APC. And that is the truth,” he said.
Yari added that the APC must exercise caution in its next move as the party no longer has the numbers it had in the past.
He said: “The 10th Assembly is a completely different Assembly from the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. Usually any party that has a majority has a two-thirds majority most of the time, but our own case is completely different. For what? Because in the House of Representatives, I told him (the president) that the minority had the largest number there, they have 182. Whereas our party has 178. In the Senate, where we used to from having 65, 70, we now have 59 and the opposition has 50.
“When the party makes a decision, it must take this into account and see how it is going to be done. Because at the end of the whole exercise, whatever happens, we firmly believe that the election must take place in both houses."
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