Chief Edwin Clark, a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for truce in the tussle surrounding the emergence of minority leadership in the House of Representatives.

Clark urged his party, the PDP to face issues of national interests as the main opposition party and allow peace to reign in the 9th Assembly.

Clark in an interviews with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja said that the tussle was unnecessary, advising the PDP to accept the Ndudi Elumelu as announced by the Speaker of the House Assembly, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.

Other suspended members are Wole Oke, Lynda Ikpeazu, Anayo Edwin, Gideon Gwadi, Toby Okechukwu and Adekoya Abdul-Majid.

Clark said that there were major issues in the country that PDP should concern itself with.

“I believe that if there are about 141 opposition members in the House of Representatives and 121 of them belong to PDP, the other 20 members are members of the House and they must be consulted.

“So if the members of the House who are in opposition all agree that this is what we want to do, I will appeal to PDP to face larger problems in this country.

“Ruga is there and there are many other things in this country that are going wrong. PDP should play the role of opposition effectively in those areas and leave this matter. It is done.

“If the Speaker has already announced that this is the minority leader now there is nothing anyone can do.

Otherwise, you want to create problem in the House which should not be.

“So, I am advising the PDP leadership that now that they have suspended them for month, that may be enough sanction. Allow what has happened in the House to go on. They are all members of the PDP,” he said.

Clark urged that democracy should be allowed to prevail and institutions should be allowed to do their jobs in the country.

The elderstatesman said that there was no place even in the PDP constitution which says it should nominate people and forward to the House, saying “the National Assembly has its rules and regulations.

He went further that “Rule 8 of the NASS, I think, says that elected members of the House whether they are majority or minority should sit among themselves and elect their members.

“They did not say that one political party should nominate people for the chairman or secretary to come and submit to NASS.

“I don’t think there is anything like that. But the party has to be in the know, I agree. But the whole thing that happen, we should be thinking about major things.”

He said that the PDP established the precedent in the 7th NASS, when the speakership position was zoned to the South West, and Aminu Tambuwal, North West contested and won, against the wish of the party.

“Everyone of one of us went to the House including PDP Board of Trustees Chairman, Late Chief Tony Anenih, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and many PDP members were there and election was conducted among the lawmakers.

Mulikat Akande, who was the party’s choice agreed to contest and PDP allowed the elections to go on and the end, Tambuwal won and Emeka Ihedioha became his deputy. Heavens did not fall.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/07/reps-minority-crisis-edwin-clark-urges.html

Even E.K Clark knows a lost battle when he sees one

Umahi and co want to put Wike in his place before 2023 and they've succeeded with this one. Chinda should go back to Oroworukwo if he's tired of Abuja. Elumelu is here to stay and ready to put APC on their toes

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Stupid chieftain

Sir chop and clean mouth has spoken

The elder has spoken. Take it or you leave it.
Wike will be silence permanently before 2023. He is the target.

Wike Pos Africa
After they have finished eating Wike's money.

Na una know

lol

When APC had their own PDP mocked them lol see ehn first to do no dey pain

Wailers are definitely in dilemma

wetin elder sit down look and see even if small pikin climb tree im no go see am...like he said a precedent was set when tambuwai won mukailat pdp anointed....saraki and dogara did it... now elumelu...did de follow the law yes..so all wailers shut up.... let's talk ruga coza and other things

Edwin Clark should shut up, his generation messed up this country with their myopic way of reasoning

To Pa Clark, farmers/herders crisis and killings is not the problem anymore but the proposed solution is the problem. Even when it is not by force for any state to key into it.

PDP go gree listen?

Mikora:
Edwin Clark should shut up, his generation messed up this country with their myopic way of reasoning

You telling a man old enough to be your father to shut up for saying the truth you don't agree with


What is wrong with all these Igbo touts?
I wish they can just give you guys biafra so you guys can take your parasitic selves out of naija equation

The truth is that HOR speaker Femi Gbajabiamila's hands are tied with respect to the choice of Minority Leader.

- He is bound to obey, first, Nigerian constitution and second, House Rules.

- He is not the boss of HOR but the first among equals and his speakership is at the pleasure of the majority of members at every point in time.

- Announcing Rep Chinda rather than Rep Elumelu, would be stiff-neckedly going against the dominant majority of the House Minority Representatives, which means to deliberately shoot himself in the leg. Moreover, key provisions of the House Rules favour Rep Elumelu's emergence.

- Femi Gbajabiamila is damn too smart to commit political harakiri to please some egotistical persons in PDP rather than please the people who elected him to serve them.

Jchi9876:


You telling a man old enough to be your father to shut up for saying the truth you don't agree with


What is wrong with all these Igbo touts?
I wish they can just give you guys biafra so you guys can take your parasitic selves out of naija equation

that man is over 90...he can be someone great grandfather

Same PDP that loved the way APC members voted for Saraki and Ekweremadu against party directives in 2015 wants to probe its lawmakers for 'doing the right thing'.

aboubkr:

Same PDP that loved the way APC members voted for Saraki and Ekweremadu against party directives in 2015 wants to probe its lawmakers for 'doing the right thing'.

It's because they take we the electorates for granted and assume us to having short memory.

Elumelu is the minority leader of the house of Representatives and there is nothing PDP NWC can do about it.The only way Chinda and his men can overturn what happened in the house last week is if PDP can convince Elumelu and his men to resign from their principal officers position.