With few hours to inauguration of the 9th National Assembly, one of the major contenders for President of the Senate, Danjuma Goje and 60 other senators-elect, have endorsed Ahmad Lawan.
The Secretary of the Ahmad Lawan campaign group, Barau Jibrin announced this in Abuja at the unveiling of more endorsement of senators-elect.
Goje had on Thursday stepped down for Ahmad Lawan.
Announcing the names of the senators-elect, Barau said of the 61 persons that endorsed Lawan, 60 were from the All Progressives Congress APC while one was from Young Progressives Party YPP.
Barau said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC had cleared 107 of the 109 senators-elect expected to form the ninth senate.
He said from the number, there were 62 APC senators-elect, 44 Peoples Democratic Party PDP and one from YPP.
He further disclosed that the two outstanding seats in Imo were yet to be determined by INEC.
