PDP Senators-elect Support Lawan/Akume Ticket

The proposed joint ticket of Senators Ahmed Lawan and George Akume which was announced this past weekend has been supported by many senators-elect, who had not made up their minds before now. According to Senators, their support is “because of the ticket and issue-based campaign”. The group under the name “Unity Forum” of the Senate, led by Senator Barnabas Gamade, this past weekend, announced the joint ticket.

 

“All senators-elect across the political divide in the yet to be inaugurated Senate are already identifying with team, especially those in APC.

“In terms of the experience, we have been telling our distinguished colleagues across party lines that the Lawan-Akume ticket will provide the nation with the much desired legislative know-how because Lawan is going to be the highest ranking APC senator in the Eighth Assembly. Senator Akume is a former governor and a legislator in the last eight years. He is the Minority Leader.”

The senators said the ticket is sell-able “because Lawan and Akume, from the available record of their service to the country in the public domain, have been on the same page with Nigerians on the menace”.

“From the pronouncements of our party leaders and their body language, what is of utmost importance to them is for the National Assembly to start on a clean slate with principal officers who will be seen as not only transparent, but transparently honest and do not carry any baggage of past scandal, no matter how small,” they added.