SENATE RESUMES ON TUESDAY.

The Senate is to resume sitting on Tuesday after the Eid-el Kabir holiday.

VOP news gathered that as the upper chamber resumes, majority and minority leaders are expected to emerge.

The All-Progressives Congress (APC), with the largest number of members, is expected to produce the majority leader, while the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will produce the minority leader.

While APC has 59 senators; PDP has 36; Labour Party (LP) eight; Social Democratic Party (SDP) two; New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) two; Young People’s Party (YPP) one and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) one.

The ruling APC and the minority caucus are also expected to fill the vacant eight principal positions.

While APC is expected to produce the majority leader, deputy majority leader, chief whip and deputy chief whip, the four principal positions reserved for the minority caucus are minority leader, deputy minority leader, minority whip and deputy minority whip.

PDP, being the major opposition party, is expected to produce the minority leader, deputy leader, minority whip and deputy minority whip.