Group kicks against religious consideration for Senate Presidency

Rescue North West has kicked against religious consideration as criteria to choose the Senate President, noting that winning elections are no child’s play.

The group in the All Progressives Congress (APC) appealed to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to zone the Senate President to the North West and consider Sen. Barau Jubrin for the position.

In a statement, yesterday, signed by the coordinator, Muktar Dahiru-Gore, the group noted that the zone contributed about 30 per cent of the APC votes in the February 25 presidential poll, adding that Jubrin is most experienced lawmaker from the zone.

It stated that the dividend of election should not be awarded to the one who expended less resources and energy on religious sentiment.
 
He said: “We have watched with keen interest the attention, which the office of the 10th Senate President has attracted and the jostling for the office among distinguished senators as regards which zone should produce the number three man.”

“Several reasons have been canvassed, from the mundane to the sublime, which are not uncommon when people seek to grab, at all costs, plum positions and jobs. Everyone will justify why it should be theirs.”
  
According to him, while the aim of religion is to guarantee a life after life, politics serves a diametrically opposing aim of making life more abundant while we live.

He added: “It is, therefore, because of the reason that without winning an election, there would be nothing on the table to share that we drum support for the North West that contributed most to the election to derive the benefit of what they have worked for.

“Maybe we still needed to understudy the phenomenon of winning elections in Nigeria.”