The Senate will resume sitting on Tuesday after the Eid-el Kabir holiday.
As the upper chamber resumes, the majority and minority leaders are expected to emerge.
The All Progressives Congress (APC), with the largest number of members, is expected to produce the majority leader, while the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will make the minority leader.
While APC has 59 senators, PDP has 36, Labour Party (LP) eight; Social Democratic Party (SDP) two; New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) two; Young Peoples Party (YPP) one and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) one.
This shows that seven political parties make up the membership of the 10th Senate, with 50 as opposition members.
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The ruling APC and the minority caucus are also expected to fill eight vacant principal positions.
While APC is expected to produce the majority leader, the deputy majority leader, the chief whip and the deputy chief whip, the four principal positions reserved for the minority caucus are minority leader, deputy minority leader, minority whip and deputy minority whip.
PDP, being the major opposition party, is expected to produce the minority leader, deputy leader, minority whip and deputy minority whip.
Nominations for the positions are purely the affairs of political parties with the majority of seats in the Senate.
Findings show that Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti) and Mohammed Ndume (APC-Borno) are major contenders for the Senate majority leader’s seat.
The duo were among the arrowheads of Senate President Godswill Akpabio’s campaign for the senate presidency.
(NAN)
