APC: Saraki lied, Senate presidency not zoned to North-Central

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as ‘a lie and an embarrassment’ reports in a section of the media that Senate Presidency had been zoned to the North-Central by the party.
One of the contenders for the number three position in the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Senator Bukola Saraki, also tweeted on Tuesday morning that the NWC of the party had zoned the office to the North-Central.
He tweeted: “I am delighted that the NWC of our dear party yesterday reaffirmed its earlier decision to zone position of senate president to North-Central”.
But later in the day, a statement by the APC National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, denied a published report that the NWC met on Monday night and zoned the Senate Presidency to the North-Central and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the South-West. To Buni, such a report and tweet were figments of imagination of the authors, insisting that nothing like that ever happened.
He declared, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, that the party was deeply embarrassed by the story, which was apparently planted in the media to sow the seeds of
instability in the party.
”The NWC never discussed the issued of zoning at its meeting. Therefore, the report of its decision on zoning is a figment of the imagination of whoever concocted the story,” it said.
APC said nothing has changed since the President-elect said he is ready to work with anyone from any part of the country who occupies any of the principal offices of the incoming National Assembly, including those of the Senate Presidency and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.