Chief Ibrahim Emokpaire, an APC leader, has provided an explanation for why the ruling party did not allocate the Senate Presidency to the South East. He claimed that the South East’s APC’s vote total was insufficient to support giving the area the Senate Presidency. He added that the ruling party didn’t think of the South East for the position because it had already produced more Senate Presidents than any other region in the country’s southern region.
He said in an interview with The Nation, ”On this issue, there are two different schools of thought. The first school of thought said look the Senate President must come from the South East because we should appease the South East because they were not able to produce President and Vice President. But the other school of thought made it quite clear and very logical. According to them, the South East had produced more Senate Presidents in the past than any other region in the entire South and our party, the APC did not have enough votes from the South East to justify being given Senate Presidency. Those were two topical issues that were being argued by the two schools of thought.”
