Vanguard
3 June 2011
editorial
After the swearing in of the President and Governors, attention has shifted to the legislature, especially the National Assembly, which will be inaugurated next week. Shortly after, the leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives will be decided.
The sessions may be rowdy because of the unsettled questions of the zoning arrangement of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the "ranking" procedure in the Senate, which will limit the chances of some becoming principal officers in both chambers.
The zoning arrangement of the PDP compels the National Assembly to pick the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the North Central and South West, respectively. Even if the case of North Central is understandable because of the performance of the party in the zone, the zoning of Speaker to the South West is more troublesome. The South West voted massively to reject PDP for the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.
While the battle over the oddity of the PDP zoning continues, the "ranking" rule in the Senate, which the House of Representatives might adopt in appointing its principal officers, causes further complications. The rule dictates that the more times a senator is elected the higher the senator's ranking in consideration as a principal officer.
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