President of the Senate, Goodwill Akpabio has been designated to be within the Preparatory Committee for the sixth World Convention of Audio system of Parliament.
A press release issued by the Basic Secretary of the African Parliamentary Union, APU, to the Basic Secretary of the Worldwide Parliamentary Union, IPU, Mr Martin Chungong, confirmed the engagement.
“Mr Basic Secretary, I’m happy to carry to your consideration that after the digital assembly of the Geo-Political Group, held on March seventh, 2024, the next members have been designated to be within the Preparatory Committee for the sixth World Convention of Audio system of Parliament.”
Different members of the committee are Madam Carolina Cerqueira, Speaker of the Nationwide Meeting of Angola; Mr Adams Bictogo, Speaker of the Nationwide Meeting of Cote d’Ivoire and Mr Brahim Boughali, Speaker of the Nationwide In style Meeting of Algeria.
reporter recollects that Senator Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State in South-South Nigeria, was on the final convention of the IPU in Luanda, Angola, elected into the Government Committee of the worldwide physique.
Akpabio led Nigeria’s delegation to the IPU’s 147th Basic Meeting in October 2023, breaking a 59-year jinx. He’s the primary Nigerian to be elected to the committee since 1964.
