Senator Godswill Akpabio has succeded in defeating Senator Abdulaziz Yari making him the 10th Senate President.
The voting by the lawmakers elect was done on the building of the Nigerian Senate, in the build-up to the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly.
According to Vanguard, Senator Godswill Akpabio who was the Governor of Akwa Ibom was nominated by Senator Ali Ndume after he read the biography of the now President of the Senate.
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Senator Olamilekan Solomon Yayi from Ogun State also supported Senator Godswill as he nominated him.
Surrendered Boko Haram members should be taken back to their communities – Senate President
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan said on Monday that the reports that Boko Haram elements are coming out of their trenches to surrender to Nigerian troops should be encouraged and surrendered members should be reintegrated to their communities.
Lawan stated this in Maiduguri, Borno State at the Palace of Shehu of Borno, Abubakar El-Kanemi during his condolence visit to the Monarch who lost his elder brother and to the family of former Foreign Affairs minister, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe over the death of his mother-In-Law.
He stated that recent surrender by Boko Haram terrorist is a good development for the security architecture of the nation adding that government would ensure that those received are appropriately processed.
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