Some members of the All Progressives Congress’ faction in the House of Representatives known as the Loyalists Group on Sunday denied that the leadership tussle in the legislature was over, contrary to Saturday’s public announcement by key figures of the group.

Rather, the lawmakers said there could only be “genuine agreement” on how to achieve peace in the House if the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, would sever his “unholy ties” with the Peoples Democratic Party members of the House.

This came amid mounting tension ahead of the rescheduled resumption of the House on Tuesday.

Dogara is also set to name the principal officers of the House tomorrow.

However, the loyalists insisted that discussions on peace must be with all the members of the group lead by a former Minority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila.

The members, who addressed a news conference in Abuja, argued that an APC-dominated legislature with a leadership by the PDP was not their idea of the change the APC worked hard to attain at the 2015 general election.

The spokesman for the group, Mr. Nasir Zangon-Daura, gave this position at the news conference, where 21 out of the 174 members of the group showed up.

However, Zangon-Daura explained that he had the mandate of the absentee members to speak on their behalf.

He denied that any concessions or offers on how to resolve the crisis had been offered to the group, against a position taken by key members of the group in Abuja on Saturday.

Zangon-Daura said, “To have a genuine agreement that is not tainted by the PDP, the Dogara group will have to first of all cut off the umbilical cord between it and the PDP and secondly, engage in candid reconciliatory discussions with our group as a whole through our approved members under the leadership of Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.

“We are, however, aware of the Trojan offers of party principal officers’ positions being made to individuals in our group in their individual capacities in order to lure them from our group.

“We, hereby, restate for the avoidance of any doubt that this struggle is not about Femi Gbjabiamila, Yakubu Dogara, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, Mohammed Monguno or Pally Iriase.

“This is about being loyal and committed to the party’s manifesto, which among others, includes the fight against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari.”

Zangon-Daura recalled that efforts to resolve the leadership tussle culminated in an intervention by the APC’s Governors’ Forum through the Governor of Sokoto State, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal.

He noted that, having met the loyalists group led by Gbajabiamila and the Consolidation Group of Dogara, the former expected the Tambuwal committee to convene a meeting of the two sides for further discussions.

Zangon-Daura added that while this second phase of meetings was being awaited, it came to them as a surprise that the Dogara group had appointed principal officers and was about to unveil them on Tuesday.

“This second meeting between Governor Aminu Tambuwal and our group has yet to take place,” he said.

On Saturday, Ado-Doguwa (Kano State); Iriase (Edo State); and Monguno (Borno State) seen as strong mobilisers of the loyalists group, had declared support for Dogara, a move that confirmed the crack in the group.

The lawmakers claimed that they had realised it was better to place the interest of the country ahead of all other considerations to accept the positions of the principal officers of the House as proposed by Dogara.

http://www.punchng.com/news/dogara-must-cut-ties-with-pdp-apc-group/

...AND THE BEAT GOES ON!

APC should resolve their matter and allow us be.

hmmmm

For him to cut that ties, he needs a big sharp ax. Mumu people

Dogara must go!!!

The APC has shown in various ways that it is a party that was not ready to take on the mantle of leadership at any given time.

It is just a party of former criminals in the PDP that came together with the sole aim of overthrowing GEJ. If their Presidential candidate was Tinubu, by now, the party would have been long buried.


That's the reason why we are having all these incessant and unnecessary mumurisim!!

Confused parties, confused leaders, confused people, confused country..... let everyone return to his God

#finito

Why?

Can't all these people be recalled back to wherever they came out from? It's obvious they got nothing to offer. It's all just noise. Haba!!!

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barcanista:
APC should resolve their matter and allow us be.

Must you talk? Nincompoop!

APC and their forceful politics , they know that their party is full of backstabbing and party cross-carpeting politicians so they are only trying to add more thieves into their gang

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mrborntodoit:
APC and their forceful politics , they know that their party is full of backstabbing and party cross-carpeting politicians so they are only trying to add more thieves into their gang

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Same way Tambuwal cut with APC abi

Nigerian Politicians are childish.

Yes he should for democracy sake

Tomorrow would mark another eventful day in the history of the National Assembly.

Stay glued to your TVs.

DropShot:

Must you talk? Nincompoop!

Just shut it already!

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barcanista:
APC should resolve their matter and allow us be.

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KingKonga:
APC is fvcking greedy to say..just cos ekweremadu is the DSP dey fighting tooth and nail for him to resign.. criminals

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Yes. Else he will be sent packing. This men should know how to severe ties, you are either here or there, you can't serve two master at the same time.

@ puskin .....please help a brother out again....unnecessarily banned in business, same thread.......and pls mind telling me this time what i'm doing wrong

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Dogara is APDP. He would likely defect to PDP if pressured. Now is the time APC get to root out elements of discord. You either adhere to party Ethics or you go to hell.

Bugatie:


Just shut it already!

Mugu, who you be? You be PPA abi na defense chief?