Chris Ngige, minister of labour and Employment, has tipped two Nigerians of Igbo extraction who could be senate president in the ninth National Assembly.
According to him, Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, and Senator Ben Uwajimogu, a ranking senator, are fully qualified for the position and should be the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Ngige said: “We have those that are ranking now. We have Uwajimogu, he is now a two-term Senator, he is coming back from the ruling party.
“We have Kalu. Orji Uzor Kalu was a Federal Assembly legislator during the military regime, it’s counted, because it was a National Assembly, so he has got some ranking.
“Therefore, Orji Uzor Kalu is also qualified. Okorocha’s case will be determined before then.
“We now have some senators unlike the last time when we had zero non-party senator coming from the Southeast. There was nobody at all. So, the Southeast should definitely be in the equation, I mean the proportion of Senate presidency.”
Ngige also condemned the violence the took place during the general elections in some cases.
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