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Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says his party will not waste time filling principal officers positions in the national assembly.

On Tuesday, Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, was elected senate president; while Tajudeen Abbas, a lawmaker from Kaduna, was elected speaker of the house of representatives.

The principal positions for the majority party to fill in the senate and house of representatives are leader, deputy leader, chief whip and deputy chief whip.

Speaking with reporters at the Aso villa on Tuesday, the APC chairman said the party will come up with acceptable choices to present to President Bola Tinubu.

“What is now left for us, as a party, is to sit and determine the remaining members of the leadership. Each of these principal officers has got a deputy and of course the majority leader of each of the chambers,” he said.

“We’re going to sit over this and we want to believe that we are not going to waste any time whatsoever.

“We will come up with what we’ll give the president to get his buy-in before it’s made public or before it goes to the national assembly.”

The chairman said it was not an easy task nominating the presiding officers of the national assembly.

“It wasn’t easy coming to this point, but we thank God almighty that so much has been done and so much lessons have been learned in the course of this endeavour,” he said.

“There is time for everything and God is the giver of power and influence, God has chosen the gentlemen today; president of the senate and deputy president of the senate and the speaker and deputy speaker of the two chambers of the national assembly.

“For people who don’t know, for people who are into constitutional law, the legislature is the first estate and no government can claim to be stable without ensuring that the national assembly is in state and that’s what we’ve achieved today.”