JUST IN: ADAMU MEETS WITH ABBAS, KALU, AND 30 PARLIAMENTARIANS.

Tajudeen Abbas and Benjamin Kalu, the two APC leaders running for the House of Representatives leadership positions, traveled to Abuja on Tuesday to meet with the party’s National Working Committee. They were accompanied by about 30 other members-elect.

Three white Coaster vehicles hauled the lawmakers, who included Joint Task Committee members and supporters of the current Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, to the meeting’s exclusive location at around 2.18 p.m.

Following the announcement of the zoning arrangement on May 8, Abbas and Kalu will finally be meeting with the NWC chaired by Senator Abdullahi Adamu at the political roundtable on Tuesday.

The APC micro-zoned the office of Deputy Senate President to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Jibrin Barau, and the position of Senate President to the recently-retired Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godwin Akpabio.

Abass was designated as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Kalu, the South-East Representative-elect, won the position of Deputy Speaker.

Felix Morka, the National Publicity Secretary, made the announcement a few weeks ago following a three-and-a-half-hour NWC meeting.

The arrangement had angered rival candidates and their supporters, and many of them blamed the party leadership for not consulting them before announcing it.

The meeting’s agenda was not made public as of the time this report was filed.

However, sources claimed that the delegation may have arrived to inform the national chairman and the NWC members of the delegation’s degree of development as part of ongoing discussions to win over their colleagues and other parliamentarians from other boards to their side.

Later, more information