A fresh battle between the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara and former Minority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has started.

Gbajabiamila was defeated last Tuesday by Dogara in the pulsating contest for the Speakership.

However, the two sides are now locked in a new war over chairmanships of committees, appointment of principal officers and headship of the Committee on Public Accounts (PAC).

Although Gbajabiamila had last week pledged loyalty to the leadership of Dogara, Daily Sun gathered that he, with the backing of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have made some demands that must be fulfilled if the Dogara’s leadership is to enjoy the support of lawmakers loyal to him(Gbajabiamila ).

The former Minority Leader and his supporters met with members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC last weekend. Prior to the election, he was the candidate adopted by APC for Speaker.

The meeting was fashioned to bridge the crack in the House occasioned by the outcome of the speakership contest.

A source at the meeting revealed that Gbajabiamila’s group gave stringent conditions for accepting to work with the new leadership of the House.

Among the conditions, according to the source, include granting Gbajabiamila’s supporters more committees chairmanship slots. Standing Committees in the House are 89. He said such committees must be Grade ‘A’.

The source said, “yes, there was a meeting between a group of House members who supported Gbajabiamila in the recent contest for Speaker and our party leaders. I can also tell you that talks are going on right now to reconcile all members in the House because all the people involved are APC members . Gbajabiamila wants a special concession to be given to him in form of giving his group more chairmanship slots”.

Apart from that, he disclosed that the former Minority Leader wants to be the one to appoint three out of the four principal officers. Also, Gbajabiamila has requested to be given the opportunity to name a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker who will chair the PAC. A lawmaker from Delta State is being penciled down for the job.

“Our brother, Gbajabiamila wants to appoint three of the four principal officers. He is also asking Dogara to allow him chose a PDP lawmaker that will head PAC”.

The source disclosed that the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, is disposed to all the demands by Gbajabiamila and is asking Dogara to concede.

He said the party has penciled down Gbajabiamila as the House Majority Leader, noting that everything was being done to appease his camp.

However, the Speaker is said to have rejected all the demands. As a result of this hardline stance, the APC leadership, the source said, may take the matter before President Muhammadu Buhari this week.

He said, “there are plans to present the matter before the President and the leader of our party. He is in a position to broker an amicable resolution between the two camps”.

The source noted that there are fears that poor handling of the matter may cause instability in the chamber, claiming that Dogara’s camp believes that Gbajabiamila’s demands were subtle trap for the leadership.

According to him, the thinking in the Speaker’s camp was that allowing the other group to have incredible number of chairmanship slots will infuriate the PDP caucus in the House, forcing it to align with opponents of the Speaker against him.

Meanwhile, responding to the allegation that his boss made such demands, Gbajabiamila’s aide, Smart Olanrewaju, said he was not aware his boss gave any condition for accepting the leadership of Dogara.

He, however, said members of Gbajabiamila group met with the leadership of APC recently, contending that there was nothing wrong if the group made any demand(s).

“I am not aware of such demands. However, there is nothing wrong if the group made any demand during its meeting with the party”, he said.
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However, the Speaker is said to have[b] rejected all the demands[/b]. As a result of this hardline stance, the APC leadership, the source said, may take the matter before President Muhammadu Buhari this week.

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APC the main war is with Boko haram lest you guys should forget.
Nigerian politicians have been selfish since independent.

Gbajiabiamila should just concentrate on his MINORITY leader position

Here we go again...

dunkem21:
Gbajiabiamila should just concentrate on his MINORITY leader position

minority leader ko, celebrity leader ni.

He belongs to the majority , so he can't be a minority leader again.

Caseless:
minority leader ko, celebrity leader ni.
He belongs to the majority , so he can't be a minority leader again.

What of David Mark?

dunkem21:



What of David Mark?

so he should take the post of minority leader as a member of the majority party simply because a minority stole the post of Senate leader from the apc?



We're progressives; we don't play such politics.

hmmmm, am doubting this Apc loggo (change). We still have a long way to go.

They promised 'Change'

Yet all we can see is selfish interest and greed to the detriment of the Nation. What a shame

Dogara and his fulani brothers will put Femi Gbajabiamila where he belongs. Femi is allowed to shout afterall he's an Oily man.

Figment of the media. APc pls share your post alone and stop including PDP so that by 2019 you will not have excuse for your failure.

Must everything be about power sharing and grabbing?? No thought for the electorates.

Okay

Wow

Gbajabiamila lost he cannot start dictating to Dogara that is blackmail.

modath:



Media madness!!! If a story is to be concocted, efforts must be made to make it as plausible as possible..

We are to believe Femi Gbajabiamila a staunch & dyed in the wool Tinubu ally is rooting for a PDP member to chair a commitee ? Really?

Sun Newspaper more grease to your elbow..

Bro, it’s good to be guided and informed. In both the Senate and the House in Nigeria, the convention has been to appoint an opposition party member to head the Public Accounts Committee as a sort of check to the Executive. Senator Lawan who contested Senate President with Saraki was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts when PDP had majority and Mark was Senate President. The only wise thing is normally to appoint a sort of friendly opposition member. Mark and Lawan were good and if not for the power dynamics, Mark would have prefeered Lawan to Saraki though Mark would also have been somewhat restrained when George Akume a Mark rival from same State emerged as Deputy to Lawan. As it is, a PDP member will head this Committee in both Senate and House. For instance, Saraki could appoint Andy Uba or any PDP Senator who is said to be close to him or who he thinks he can influence.

May God make our enemies to be confused as apc, Amen

zik4ever:

Bro, it’s good to be guided and informed. In both the Senate and the House in Nigeria, the convention has been to appoint an opposition party member to head the Public Accounts Committee as a sort of check to the Executive.

Thanks for the clarification, its nice to learn new things. I never connected Lawan's position to that reason, just assumed it was a lucky draw...

And we think they are there to fight for the masses
I swear to God that these lawmakers, sense dem no get FULLSTOP

Oya Dogara

Place gbajabiamila where he belongs to

Akande should head PAC

drtwist:
Figment of the media. APc pls share your post alone and stop including PDP so that by 2019 you will not have excuse for your failure.

PDP reps made him speaker and must be the ones to share the spoils of office.

Give a black man power and he will show you his true colors... Nigerians can see how selfish and desperate these APC guys come

k

l laugh in kafanchan



SAI DOGARA

100% of nigerians don't even know femi's second name. yet he wants to preside over multitude

#TeamDogara till 耶穌再來

they are all chickens...... APC Experiencing internal Tsunami

How i love Karma

APC Shame sorry I mean Change... Watching them in 3D

Na them know...

Sips my Hollandia

Ha!

Gbaja better stay one place