Leaders of the Northcentral region have urged Senator Sani Musa, outgoing House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Ahmed Idris Wase, and the lawmaker representing Pankshin/Kanam/Kanke Federal Constituency of Plateau State, Yusuf Gagdi, to jettison their ambitions of heading the two chambers of the National Assembly.

Why Musa is campaigning for the position of Senate President, both Wase and Gagdi are lobbying for the position of the House Speaker.

The three lawmakers are from the region.

But following President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s appointment of former Benue State governor and outgoing Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the leaders of the region asked the three lawmakers to withdraw from the race.

The appointment came few weeks after the Northcentral protested against the zoning of the Deputy Senate President and the Speaker’s positions to the Northwest.

One of the groups that protested the zoning arrangement was the North Central Progressive for Development (NCPFD).

But in a statement at the weekend, NCPFD’s Chairman Ibrahim Tajo said the reservation of the region had been addressed by President Tinubu with Akume’s appointment.

“To the glory of God, our zone now has two key figures in the government. Aside from the SGF, another prominent leader of our zone in the person of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, has been the National Chairman of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the last 15 months.

“While Senator Adamu controls the affairs of our party through the instrumentality of the National Working Committee (NWC), our brand-new SGF is the engine room of Tinubu‘s administration. Thus, President Tinubu has wiped away our tears in the Northcentral…

“To whom much is given, much is expected. With this, we need to double our support to the President to enable him to deliver his pact with Nigerians as captured in the Renewed Hope Agenda. (The Nation)

•Senator Sani Musa, outgoing House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Ahmed Idris Wase, and the lawmaker representing Pankshin/Kanam/Kanke Federal Constituency of Plateau State, Yusuf Gagdi