Senator Jarigbe Agom Speaks On Senate Minority Leadership Ambition And Aminu Tambuwal

<h4>Senator Jarigbe Agom speaks on senate minority leadership ambition and Aminu Tambuwal<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Senator Agom Jarigbe&comma; 53&comma; representing Cross River North Senatorial District of Cross River State&comma; has distanced himself from the 10th Senate Minority leader contest&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Senator Jarigbe spoke against the growing insinuations in the public space to the effect that he is being sponsored for the Senate Minority leader contest by former Rivers State governor&comma; Nyesom Wike and other governors in the G5 group in the Peoples Democratic Party&comma; PDP&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking on Arise TV Friday morning&comma; Senator Jarigbe explained that&comma; at the moment&comma; he is neither in the race nor being sponsored by Wike and his PDP group&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the Ibil&comma; Ogoja Local Government Area born Senator&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am not interested in Senate minority leader contest&period; G5 governors are not pushing for me&period; I have not had any interaction with the governors&period; I have met and discussed with Wike but at no time has he mentioned that to me&comma;” he disclosed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; Senator Jarigbe stressed that if afterwards he is persuaded to occupy the position by his colleagues and PDP stakeholders&comma; he will not hesitate to do so in the interest of national service&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Further&comma; Senator Jarigbe Agom disclosed that&comma; at the moment&comma; no one has been officially nominated by the PDP for the position&comma; saying that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There was a stalemate in the minority caucus meeting we had recently&period; So&comma; no one has been nominated&period; Anyone who wants to be minority leader should consult widely&period; The law says minority leader shall be nominated and not elected&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When reminded that former Speaker of the House of Representatives&comma; Rt&period;Honourable Aminu Tambuwal is rumoured to have been endorsed by the 2023 PDP presidential candidate&comma; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar&comma; Senator Jarigbe said he is not aware of Tambuwal’s intention&comma; adding that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; If Tambuwal comes to me&comma; I will weigh options on the basis who is most qualified&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Jarigbe&comma; an experienced politician was a member of the House of Representatives in the 8th and 9th National Assembly representing Ogoja&sol;Yala Federal Constituency<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In 2020&comma; he contested and won the Cross River North Senatorial bye election&period; However&comma; it was given to another candidate&period; In 2021&comma; the Supreme Court had judgement in his favour and upheld him as the senator-elect for Cross River North&period; He recontested the 2023 senatorial election and was reelected under the Peoples Democratic Party&comma;PDP&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;