Some members-elect of House of Representatives from All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have vowed to work for the enthronement of credible leadership for the lower chamber.

The coalition said it was crucial to elect House leaders that would build on the legacy of vibrancy for which the outgoing 7th House of Representatives was reputed.

Towards achieving this objective, the members-elect from different political parties said they have collapsed their pressure groups to form “The 8th Assembly New Nigeria Agenda (ANNA)”.

The conveners of ANNA, who spoke to reporters at a news conference in Abuja include member-elect for Agaie/Lapai Federal Constituency of Niger State Mohammed A. Mahmud (APC), Ibrahim Baba (APC, Katagum Federal Constituency of Bauchi State), Chukwuemeka Ujam (PDP, Nkwanu East/West Federal Constituency of Enugu State), and Director of Administration, Mr. Samuel Melaye.

Mahmud spoke for the coalition.

Also yesterday, the ongoing lobby for sharing of National Assembly positions took a twist, with the PDP Senate caucus holding a lengthy meeting with the Northeast caucus of the APC.

An insider said that the talk may metamorphose into an alliance between the two blocs with the aim of gunning for the Senate President and the Deputy Senate President.

It was gathered that some Northeast APC senators, who attended the meeting, were “dissatisfied with the plan to zone the slot of the Senate President to the Northcentral geo-political zone.”

The APC senators were also said to have resolved to approach the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari and the National Executive Council of the party to lodge their case for a revisit of the zoning formula.

A credible source at the National Assembly said that the Northeast senators and those in the fold of the PDP are negotiating a power sharing deal that may see a ranking PDP senator emerge as the Deputy Senate President while another ranking senator from the Northeast will clinch the slot of the Senate President.

The source said that the calculation is part of their plan B incase their entreaties for the position of the Senate President to be zoned to the Northeast zone failed.

The source said: “I can confirm to you that the PDP have approached us with a power-sharing deal that will cede the Senate Presidency to the Northeast while one of the PDP states will produce the Deputy Senate President.”

He insisted that “Our position is if the APC fails to zone either the Senate President or the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Northeast, then we will have no option than to form this alliance with the PDP to get what we want.”

He noted that no calculative politician will toy with 49 PDP senators in chamber, although APC has majority members in the Senate.

He said that it was obvious that the PDP with 49 senators can turn the table at any time.

He said: “As things stand now, we only need seven senators to get the simple majority of 51 votes to produce the Senate President and there 18 senators from the Northeast, which gives us 66 votes.”