The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has endorsed the former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, as the next president of the Senate.
Tinubu’s endorsement of the former governor from the South-South to lead the Senate came after Senator Jibrin Barau accepted to drop his ambition to be the Senate President.
He was subsequently picked to become the deputy senate president.
Senator Barau is from Kano State.
Out of the 109 Senators from the 36 states and Abuja, the APC has 59 senators, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 36; Labour Party (LP) eight, New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) two, Social Democratic Party (SDP) two, Young Progressives Party (YPP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) one seat each.
The ruling party has more than half of the senate and can easily decide who gets what in the Upper chamber.
However, APC may have problem in controlling all the positions in the House of Representatives because it has only 175 seats while PDP and six other political parties control 185 seats.
PDP has 118, Labour 35, NNPP 19, APGA 5, SDP 2, ADC 2 and YPP 1. Three other seats are pending.