Speakership: Lawmakers-elect of minority parties set up committee to pick consensus candidate




The members-elect, drawn from the seven minority parties, said they would use their numerical strength to elect the speaker and deputy speaker of the House.

By Bakare Majeed


A coalition of members-elect of the minority parties have set up a committee to produce consensus candidates for the positions of the speaker and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives from their ranks

The members-elect, drawn from the seven minority parties, in a statement on Monday, said they would use their numerical strength to produce the presiding officers of the lower House.

The parties are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Social Democratic Party (SDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Young Progressive Party (YPP).

The 10th National Assembly will be inaugurated in June.

The members-elect, in the statement, signed by the trio of Dachung Bagos (PDP, Plateau) Afam Ogene (LP, Anambra) and Gaza Gbefwi (SDP, Nasarawa), said they will use their numerical strength of188 in the 360-member House to create upset against the All Progressives Congress (APC) which has 177 members-elect.

“Our position is further buoyed by our dominant numerical strength, which by Parliamentary ethos, precedent and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, As Amended, allows us to contest the Presiding Officers position.

“Since emerging as the “Greater Majority,” with a combined Members-Elect tally of 183, as against the APC’s total of 177, history beckons on us to constructively, and creatively, chart the path towards the deepening of our nation’s democracy,” they said.

To find suitable candidates for the two positions, the bloc of minority parties set up a 13-man committee drawn from different parties. The committee is chaired by the most senior lawmaker in the House, Nicholas Mutu (PDP, Delta), who has been in the lower chamber since 1999.

According to the statement, the committee has the mandate to shortlist, screen and eventually recommend aspirants for the speakership and deputy speaker positions.

Mr Mutu is to be deputised by Abdulmumini Jibrin, a member-elect on the platform of the NNPP from Kano, while Mr Ogene will serve as the secretary.

Other members of the committee are Oluwole Oke (PDP) Gaza Gbefwi (SDP), Beni Lar (PDP), Ali Isa (PDP), Kabiru Rurum (NNPP ), Donatus Kuzalio (LP), Yusuf Majigiri (PDP) and Nnabuife Clara (YPP).

Gwacham Chinwe PGA and Idris Salman (ADC) are also members of the committee

PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported that the ruling party adopted Tajudeen Abbas, a lawmaker from Kaduna State as the consensus candidate for the speaker, and Ben Kalu, a lawmaker from Abia State, as deputy speaker.

Aside from Messrs Abbas and Kalu, there are still nine other lawmakers that have declared interest in the race in the ruling party.

They are the Incumbent Deputy Speaker Idris Wase (Plateau) Yusuf Gagdi (Plateau) Sada Soli (Katsina), Muktar Betara (Borno) Tunji Olawuyi (Kwara), Abubakar Makki (Jigawa), Aminu Jaji (APC, Zamfara), Ben Kalu (Abia), Ado Doguwa (Kano), and Miriam Onuoha (Imo).

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Good..
Tinubu must be stopped by all means

Good one from them all

Dikegodspower:
Good..
Tinubu must be stopped by all means

Tinubu this, Tinubu that! You guys don't seems to learn at all. You blab way too much. Y'all couldn't stop this same Tinubu during the primaries upon all the noise, this same Tinubu went on to land a Sucka punch all your retarded faces during the presidential election. Smacking the Ellu Pee Stunami with close to 3M votes 😜😋😛. Instead of you and your tribe to sit down and go back to your drawing board to see where yall got it wrong, you're still here day dreaming about Tinubu... You guys are bunch of Jokers and sincerely no one is take you guys serious anymore.

EMPTY CHEST BEATER

Any sane Nigerian will say NO to rubber stamp legislators..

Dey play

Joke of the century. Have they considered the JUDAS among those 188 members?

Lol



I love this drama.

Okay let's see the outcome

By the time the selected man open his bag of dollars, many of them u-turn

Nnpp is APC lite while labour party is PDP lite.

People should know this and will soon see a pattern emerge.

Efforts in futility... it will come to nought. Tinubu is Jagaban for a reason... 3 sitting heads of state couldn't contain or contend with him. Obj, GEJ, MB

APC will go into that voting formidably trust a Tinubu. All aggrieved members will be well sorted. The candidates of pdp from states like Oyo and Rivers with maybe Benue will be bought over which gives them an upper hand and the numbers needed to win it.

After that has been done, all the juicy and major offices in the legislative arm will be shared among Apc members and other parties that collaborated with them

The ones that wanted to pull a saraki dogara stunts will be left out. The real effects of that failure will trickle down to their constituents mark my words I've really studied the house over the years believe me.

Those wanting to pull this stunt will end up being ordinary house members that will just be seconding and seconding and seconding. Even their bills won't pass first reading

Tinubu is not going to turn Nigeria into his lunch bag like he did Lagos

ekukeku:
U people should embrace democracy & work in d interest of d public.

If u still believe Tinubu won't do well in his regime, so be it to u...
But for m
" His regime will favor m "

Continue dreaming, it is allowed.
All Sai Baba supporters in 2015 claimed Buhari will favor them, are stoning Buhari today

Dikegodspower:
Good..
Tinubu must be stopped by all means

Exercise in Futility. Some of them.will vote for APC nominee. Rivers state, Oyo state, Ebonyi, some in Abia like the guy that spoke on Arise TV, some from delta, some from Edo. So the minority doesn't have the numbers

Is only in Nigeria that the executive will appoint head of legislators

unclejb2:
Tinubu is not going to turn Nigeria into his lunch bag like he did Lagos

Tinubu fherr and there. He is the most popular in Africa

This is how corruption starts. They will be offered money and contracts

Such is expected but at the end of the day,many will back down after they have been infiltrated by the ruling party when they must have been promised juicy offer.our politicians are so selfish and too gullible,believe them at your own peril.but waitoo are you still considering those from Rivers state as among the people that will be in unity with other opposition members in this decision?I keep my fingers cross as event unfold

APC primary una gang up fail.
Presidential election una gang up fail.
Swearing in coming una dey gang up una result go be failure.
NASS una dey gang up at the end na failure.
Are you not tired if been loosers always .
Continue wailing
I shall never Labour in vain

Dikegodspower:
Good..
Tinubu must be stopped by all means

You, are YOU not tired? aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Right from time immemorial, you all have been attacking BAT. The more the attack, the more he glows.

During Primaries, you said a lot against him & he brushed you & your pitied Region aside. Same thing, you ganged up against him during the General Election, he brushed you all aside. Now, NASS is here & you all are joblessly & shamelessly coming up again to put your rotten mouth into an Election that did not concern you. You will not be part of the Election same way I will not be part of it too but coming up to attack a personality who is not responsible for the woes of your Region is becoming & unbecoming!

TIME WILL TELL!

Ok

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Larryndelaw:
Tinubu fherr and there. He is the most popular in Africa

there is a very big difference between popularity and notoriety.

Tinubu is not popular, he is notorious

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All na cash out... highest bidder..


These ones go play spoilers game