Indications emerged yesterday on why the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has not made public its position on where the leadership of the National Assembly will emerge from.

Whereas the party is still keeping the public guessing, feelers from its Wednesday meeting in Abuja indicated that the party may after all be avoiding a frontal attack with the incoming members of the national assembly.

A source preview to the outcome of the meeting, informed that the party may have decided to support the most popular candidate in the contest for the senate presidency and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Presently, three senators including the former governor of Kwara state, Dr. Bukola Saraki; Senate minority leader, George Akume, and Ahmed Lawan, are top contenders for the Senate presidency, while six lawmakers are in the contest for House speakership.

It was gathered that apart from Senator George Akume and Barnabas Gemade, all other eleven APC senators are in full support of Saraki as the next senate president, while there is a split among the senators from Sokoto, Jigawa, Kebbi and Zamfara for the aspiration of Saraki as the next senate president.

The politician is also said to be counting on the 12 senators of the APC from the North East that last weekend, rejected the aspiration of Ahmed Lawan as the Senate President.

Apart from the senators who are clamouring for the former Kwara state governor for the senate presidency, supports are coming for Saraki from the incoming governor of Cross River state, Benedict Ayade who was Saraki’s deputy chairman in the Senate committee on Environment.

It was gathered that the position of the national leader of APC, Bola Tinubu on this development it is not known, but the source said that Tinubu as a master strategist of APC, may direct senators from the South West to tow the popular line of supporting Saraki as the senate president.

The source said that APC and Buhari don’t want to get into any collision course with the senators and members of the House of Representatives, hence the decision to support of popular aspirants as the senate president or the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Those canvassing the candidature of Akume are persuaded that the Benue North West lawmaker has piloted the affairs of the minority party in the upper chamber creditably and deserves to be promoted to a higher office. He is credited with facilitating the enthronement of the APC brand in the North Central Zone, having painstakingly stayed the course through the gradual evolution of the party from the Action Congress, (AC), through the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), on to the eventual emergence of the amalgam called the APC.

Lawan’s ambition now appears a tall dream as 10 out of the 13 Senators elected on the platform of the APC in his North East zone, last weekend, disowned him as their consensus candidate for the position.

The spokesperson of the group, Danjuma Goje (Gombe Central), in a press briefing with Senate correspondent, maintained that no zone will be allowed to impose candidate on them.