The jostle for the Senate minority leadership seat appears to be creating uneasy calm among senators who are members of the opposition parties following moves by some vested interests to impose leadership on them.
In the 10th Senate, the APC has 59 senators; PDP, 36; LP, 8; SDP, 2; NNPP, 2; YPP, 1; and APGA, 1.
The four principal positions reserved for the opposition parties in the Senate are minority leader, deputy minority leader, minority whip and deputy whip.
In a move to get his allies into minority leadership positions in the Red Chamber, the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, met Senate President, Godswill Akpabio on Thursday.
The meeting held at the National Assembly lasted for several hours. Wike left the parliament around 6:30pm without talking to the newsmen.
The former Rivers State governor is said to have pushed his associate, Kingsley Chinda, as minority leader in the House of Representatives, though he is yet to be confirmed.
But the PDP which has the highest minority seats with 36 senators vowed to resist any plot by the ruling APC or other interested groups to foist a minority leadership on the Senate.
Also, lawmakers from the opposition caucus said they were aware of moves by forces inside and outside the Senate to divide the minority parties and foist a compromised leadership on them. They, however, assured that the plot would fail.
