The majority leader of the Senate and the preferred candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for president of the 9th Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said many senators from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have pledged their vote for him.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, the Yobe lawmaker said, “so many PDP senators are in support of this project. In fact, YPP is fully on board, Sen. Ifeanyi Uba from Anambra. And we believe that this is the way to go.
“We are going from door to door; we are talking to all the senators-elect. We talk to the APC senators, PDP senators and YPP senator, believing that we are going to work with them.
”I want to assure everyone very seriously because it is a burden that my party feels I can carry. By the grace of God and with the support of my colleagues in the APC, PDP and YPP in the Senate, we should be able to deliver that burden very well.
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“I have no hard feelings against my brothers from the northeast contesting. What the party and the leaders did was to say I have been recommended or I have been endorsed.
”That is a preference; that the party has a preference is not to say that others cannot do the job. But definitely, the party, our leaders have some reasons why they think we are most suitable for this job.”
Lawan said, “we want to see public funds being properly applied and deployed, we want to see less of embezzlement or no embezzlement of public funds.
“This is because sometimes not the quantum of funds that you have but how you are able to ensure proper and prudent deployment of those resources that matters. We had so much resources in the past but bulk of those resources were embezzled.”