The leadership of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, is
currently holding an election to
select who will be nominated as
the party’s candidate for the
office of Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
The election is holding at the
International Conference Centre,
Abuja.
Femi Gbajabiamila is expected to
pick the ticket after his main
rival, Dogara Yakubu, stormed
out of the venue with his
supporters alleging irregularities.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that
the Consolidation Group,
comprising members loyal to Mr.
Dogara would also carry out a
parallel primary at a different
venue.
We cannot confirm if the rival
election is taking place presently.
However, the spokesperson of the
APC, Lai Mohammed, informed us
that the party is just trying to be
democratic by allowing the
members select their speaker on
their own.
“Out of 218 members, 160 are
already here and minority cannot
hold majority to ransom,” he
said.
On why Mr. Dogara and his
group left, Mr. Mohammed said
the argument of the group was
that they were not given notice
of election.
The party is expected to carry out
the same nomination for the
Senate. It is not clear yet whether
that vote will hold Saturday.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/184446-breaking-apc-conducts-mock-election-to-pick-candidate-for-house-of-reps-speakership.html

How United State Speaker is Selected



The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on
the first day of every new Congress and in the event of the death
or resignation of an incumbent Speaker. The Clerk of the House
of Representatives requests nominations: there are normally two,
one from each major party (each party having previously met to
decide on its nominee). The Clerk then calls the roll of the
Representatives-elect, each Representative-elect indicating the
surname of the candidate he or she is supporting.
Representatives-elect are not restricted to voting for one of the
nominated candidates and may vote for any person, even for
someone who is not a member (or member-elect) of the House at
all. They may also abstain by voting "present". [3]


en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives


Note that it is stated that the political parties made the decision of
who to contest ahead of time. And each party only present one
person.


APC is doing the right thing

Nice move

Femi Gbajabiamila no ni.
God bless the President.