Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has offered 60 Peoples Democratic Party’s members-elect positions of chairmen and deputy chairmen of committees if he is elected the Speaker of the Ninth House of Representatives on Tuesday.

The Director-General of the Femi Gbajabiamila /Ahmed Wase Campaign Organisation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday.

Jibrin said the 60 PDP members had accepted the offer and have started working with their colleagues in the ruling All Progressives Congress to ensure that Gbajabiamila, who is the preferred candidate of the party, emerged the winner.

While saying that the PDP already has two factions in the House of Representatives, the lawmaker from Kano State said Gbajabiamila’s camp had sealed a deal with a faction while discussions were still ongoing with the other faction.

He said with the votes of the APC members well secured for Gbajabiamila, the camp was confident of victory.

He said, “Before Femi’s endorsement by the party, the President, the governors and others, majority of us the lawmakers have agreed that he is the Speaker that we want. It was after that decision that other endorsements came.

“As it is today, he has massive supports across party lines. In 2015, the APC was just only guiding its votes because we believed then that we had the number to win the election. We didn’t bother about anything, but the PDP was concentrating on how to poach the APC members and that was how the election was won.

“But this time round, the APC is more comfortable because we have more numbers with our 223. But even at that, our campaign is more aggressive towards poaching the PDP members than the aggression of the PDP members trying to poach our members.

“As it is today, the reality of the matter is that the PDP has been split into two factions. We have been open in negotiating with both factions. We have sealed a deal with one of the factions and we are still talking with the other faction.

“We are only doing that as a safety net. We do not need the whole of the PDP members to win the election. In fact, we may not even need a vote from the PDP because we are guiding our 223 votes religiously.

“But as a safety net, we have already over 60 members of the PDP working with us. There is nothing you can do to change the minds of these PDP members because their support is based on their conviction that Gbajabiamila and Wase are the best to occupy those positions at this time.

“On the aspect of responsibility in the parliament, we are always reluctant mentioning this but it is the reality, sharing of committees and the rest. We have offered 60 positions.

“If not that the party has been broken into two factions, it is what we would have offered to all of them, but since we have concluded with one faction, we have given them that offer and they have accepted it.

“We have 60 of them and they are going to have 60 offices. It means that every one of them will have a particular position to hold in the next House.

https://punchng.com/gbajabiamila-offers-60-pdp-reps-committee-chairmanship-deputy-slots/

Tell them what they want to hear..... Get what u want and dont give a damn after all

see this one above me talking like











M0ron

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Gbaja just dey burst their brain,

Say whatever you like about him, but this guy is working for the position with consistency even with Buhari and Tinubu's support... that is how US congressmen lobby for position

Nigeria politics is always give and take


Example is our corruption fighting superman! Shelve your Senate President bid and we won't chase you with EFCC again... The book of Corruption chapter 13:28

See my signature

The hustle for front page is real

Fake news useless blogger.you should look for editor to help you correct those typographical errors the news contains

Lol

He don win

I suspect mind game here, but nevertheless I expect him to win this because the gap between the two leading party is so so wide,I am only looking for the drama on the Senate floor,pls forget the endorsement,that was how they were shouting four years ago.

I just hope that they will move thus nation forward irrespective of who holds what..

Nigeria must be great again!!!

Jmk9292:
Tell them what they want to hear..... Get what u want and dont give a damn after all

Wrong move...

Let's see what will happen.

Pleas your brother is looking For one bedroom flat in onitsha, a new house with water and light preferably reward is 10k, contact zero eight zero. Six seven eight seven, seven two two seven

This is contrary to APC's stand of Winner takes all

This guy is not a real politician. You don't say all these and bring out your strategy to bare.

Almost 99% of politicians are only interested in themselves. Then how can they make laws that will benefit the masses? God help us.

Greyworld:

Wrong move...

That has been the order of the day in Nigeria... Which politician keeps to promises? Is it even possible to fulfill such promise to such no of pdp members?

Go and settle your scores in the USA first

Na so we dey do politics not to sit down in one corner with entitlement mentality crying marginalization.

This is victory for democracy. Thank God I and the Nigerian youths voted Buhari for change.

The change is real as we Nigerian youths have moved to the next level.

Even Ndigbo today have embraced the change.

Another Georgia scam loading

Ebullience:
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has offered 60 Peoples Democratic Party’s members-elect positions of chairmen and deputy chairmen of committees if he is elected the Speaker of the Ninth House of Representatives on Tuesday.

The Director-General of the Femi Gbajabiamila /Ahmed Wase Campaign Organisation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday.

Jibrin said the 60 PDP members had accepted the offer and have started working with their colleagues in the ruling All Progressives Congress to ensure that Gbajabiamila, who is the preferred candidate of the party, emerged the winner.

While saying that the PDP already has two factions in the House of Representatives, the lawmaker from Kano State said Gbajabiamila’s camp had sealed a deal with a faction while discussions were still ongoing with the other faction.

He said with the votes of the APC members well secured for Gbajabiamila, the camp was confident of victory.

He said, “Before Femi’s endorsement by the party, the President, the governors and others, majority of us the lawmakers have agreed that he is the Speaker that we want. It was after that decision that other endorsements came.

“As it is today, he has massive supports across party lines. In 2015, the APC was just only guiding its votes because we believed then that we had the number to win the election. We didn’t bother about anything, but the PDP was concentrating on how to poach the APC members and that was how the election was won.

“But this time round, the APC is more comfortable because we have more numbers with our 223. But even at that, our campaign is more aggressive towards poaching the PDP members than the aggression of the PDP members trying to poach our members.

“As it is today, the reality of the matter is that the PDP has been split into two factions. We have been open in negotiating with both factions. We have sealed a deal with one of the factions and we are still talking with the other faction.

“We are only doing that as a safety net. We do not need the whole of the PDP members to win the election. In fact, we may not even need a vote from the PDP because we are guiding our 223 votes religiously.

“But as a safety net, we have already over 60 members of the PDP working with us. There is nothing you can do to change the minds of these PDP members because their support is based on their conviction that Gbajabiamila and Wase are the best to occupy those positions at this time.

“On the aspect of responsibility in the parliament, we are always reluctant mentioning this but it is the reality, sharing of committees and the rest. We have offered 60 positions.

“If not that the party has been broken into two factions, it is what we would have offered to all of them, but since we have concluded with one faction, we have given them that offer and they have accepted it.

“We have 60 of them and they are going to have 60 offices. It means that every one of them will have a particular position to hold in the next House.

https://punchng.com/gbajabiamila-offers-60-pdp-reps-committee-chairmanship-deputy-slots/

all because of selfless service to humanity... Smh.. Foolish followers... Why anyone won't question this desperate moves is mind bugging& baffling.. The countries that introduced democracy we don't hear them..

Shameless things.. I am circumvent of people who introduces themselves as saints but want to induce me to convince me...

Anyways commonsense is a flower that selects the garden it grows..

Senators looking after themselves with Una money, Nigerian youths rambling which zone is getting the senate presido.. Pity this generation..smh

There must be something in that speaker position that makes this man really this desperate. This is too parochial

Wanity:
see this one above me talking like a











M0ron

He's not talking like a m0ron

..he's a m0ron....and his likes would raise up his hands when a leader of tomorrow is mentioned. His comment is bereft of reason, I'm sorry

Pdp shouldn't buy by this APC desperadoes, everyone knows who Apc represent, they are used to using someone and dump at the end of the day . Pdp should vote for their conscience.

Serious lobbying is going on now

Real politicking

Johnnyessence:
Pdp shouldn't buy by this APC desperadoes, everyone knows who Apc represent, they are used to using someone and dump at the end of the day . Pdp should vote for their conscience.

Unfortunately, I can't see any competition against Lawan and Gbaja. Their victory is basically a done deal.

Kennydoc:

Unfortunately, I can't see any competition against Lawan and Gbaja. They victory is basically a done deal.

let's leave everything to God till next week Tuesday.