Per Second NewsJune 13, 2023812 Akwa Ibom Senator, ex-Gov. Godswill Akpabio has emerged the 10th President of the Senate.
Akpabio also a former Senator Minority Leader of the PDP, had defected to APC in 2019.
He defeated his closest rival, Sen. Abdulaziz Yari, polling 63 votes to defeat Yari, a former governor of Zamfara, who scored 46 votes.
The lawmakers-elect had earlier commenced voting on the floor of the Nigerian Senate, in the build-up to the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly.
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