Barring any change, top leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) are expected to meet tomorrow to consider a report on the zoning arrangement for the leadership of the National Assembly.

The party's National Executive Committee (NEC) would then meet to either ratify or modify recommendations on the zoning arrangements.

Last week, the party raised a five-man ad-hoc committee to deliberate and report back to the National Working Committee (NWC) on the zoning of offices in the National Assembly, among other tasks.

The committee met last Thursday and turned in its report to the NWC. Former Ekiti State governor, Segun Oni chaired the meeting. Other members were Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Alhaji Inuwa Abdulqadir, Dr. Muiz Banire and Chief George Moghalu, who served as the committee secretary.

The report the five-man committee submitted to the NWC indicated that the Senate president would be ceded to the North-East and the speaker of the House of Representatives to the South-West.

The committee also endorsed zoning the Senate leader to the North-West and also, which also produce the deputy speaker.

Conversely, the zoning arrangement would also see the North-Central producing the deputy Senate president and House leader in the House of Representatives. The South-West would produce the deputy Senate leader.

Further zoning arrangements showed that the South-South, having produced the national chairman of the party, would produce the House whip and deputy Senate chief whip, while the North-East would produce the deputy House leader.

Curiously, the South-East was not given any prominent leadership position in the National Assembly. The zone is, however, expected to produce the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and also, the party's secretary of the Board of Trustees (BoT).

A member of the party's NWC privy to the ad-committee arrangement disclosed that the panel "sat, considered the ranking rules in the Senate and the House of Representatives, and how they apply to sharing of offices in the two houses and came up with recommendations."

Further checks by Daily Sun indicated that between the venue of the ad-committee and submission of its report to the NWC, the recommendations were doctored. The first one, which showed a power-sharing arrangement between the North (Senate president) and the South (speaker of the House of Representatives) was altered to reflect the North taking the two top positions in the National Assembly.

A meeting of the NWC, which was reportedly convened to receive the report of the ad-hoc committee, held "in the house of the national chairman the same Thursday night… and it was inconclusive on the zoning arrangement."

The role of the NWC, he added, was to accept the report of the ad-hoc committee and transmit the same to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) for deliberation and resolution but was truncated by a heated argument that ensued thereafter.

The earlier zoning arrangement, it was gathered, was rejected by top party apparatchiks.

On Monday, the party's spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, urged Nigerians to disregard reports about the zoning arrangement.

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