New leaders elected for Nigerian parliament

STORY: New leaders elected for Nigerian parliament DATELINE: June 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of members of Nigeria's legislature 2. various of Godswill Akpabio 3. various of senate members on the parliament floor STORYLINE: Godswill Akpabio and Tajudeen Abbas, both from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party, on Tuesday, emerged as president of the Nigerian Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, in separate elections for key positions for the parliament in Africa's most populous country. Akpabio, a former minority leader of the Senate, polled 63 votes to beat his rival and party man Abdulaziz Yari, who scored 46 votes in the election for the 109-member Senate leadership. Jibrin Barau, a senator representing the northern state of Kano, was elected unopposed as the deputy Senate president. Abbas, representing the northwestern state of Kaduna, emerged as the leader of the 360-member House of Representatives, the low