The House of Representatives member-elect for Bwari/AMAC federal constituency under the platform of the Labour Party (LP), Joshua Chinedu Obika, has ruled out the possibility of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) determining who becomes the next Speaker of the House in the incoming 10th National Assembly.

According to him, with the opposition now a silent majority in the House, the next Speaker can only emerge by merit.

Obika who said he was motivated to contest in the 2023 general election by the passing into law of the Electoral Act and the use of BVAS, noted that the majority in the house are the silent majority, as their numbers today outweigh that of the APC.

Accordingly, the federal lawmaker advised the APC to keep mute on the issue of zoning for the Speakership position because the crop of members elected into the 10th House does care about producing a Speaker along party lines.

Speaking with Applesbite in Abuja yesterday, Obika said, “So, my advice to APC is to be silent on the issue of zoning of the House of Representatives because they do not have the majority number. Some of us in the opposition are still willing, knowing that based on the different parties, we are the majority. We can understand that and we are still willing to work with the APC representatives because as far as we are in the House, we are careless about the political party. We want the best among us to lead us because this time it is going to be different.

“We have seven political parties in this 10th Assembly- PDP, SDP, LP, YPP, AP, and YDP. We have so many parties and the people who understand what is happening in this country know why because Nigerians want change and they do not care about the vehicle. All they care about is the change.

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Opposition is not the name of any political party in Nigeria.

The APC is the majority in the Senate and House Of Assembly.

So the APC will produce the Senate President and Deputy Senate President

The APC will produce the Speaker and the Deputy

Except if you want to tell me we now have PLP.

Apc is the majority in both Senate and HOR.

Watching keenly

Dhur!
Las-las dey lobby 'PLP' senators and they cross over to apc.

This is an option…
APC has to lobby or say good bye..

Myopic minds can and will never comprehend..

even though the man is making good sense some otimkpu’s don’t even know what’s opposition..

They’re looking for plp and nnlpdp..

Careless

Which opposition?

Inasmuch I would love this to happen but it’s ain’t happening because Tinubu is not a rookie politician at all.

Na Tinubu be president elect not Buhari.

Besides Wike and Mankinde will gladly sow their reps to Tinubu.

Tinubu rigging his way to be president is something Nigeria will leave to regret especially his autocratic tendency in using state power, money and influence to stifle opposition. Anybody he anoint as a governor automatically becomes so.

He might work no doubt because he has the predilection for assembling performers.

bestofnollywood:
The House of Representatives member-elect for Bwari/AMAC federal constituency under the platform of the Labour Party (LP), Joshua Chinedu Obika, has ruled out the possibility of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) determining who becomes the next Speaker of the House in the incoming 10th National Assembly.

According to him, with the opposition now a silent majority in the House, the next Speaker can only emerge by merit.

Obika who said he was motivated to contest in the 2023 general election by the passing into law of the Electoral Act and the use of BVAS, noted that the majority in the house are the silent majority, as their numbers today outweigh that of the APC.

Accordingly, the federal lawmaker advised the APC to keep mute on the issue of zoning for the Speakership position because the crop of members elected into the 10th House does care about producing a Speaker along party lines.

Speaking with Applesbite in Abuja yesterday, Obika said, “So, my advice to APC is to be silent on the issue of zoning of the House of Representatives because they do not have the majority number. Some of us in the opposition are still willing, knowing that based on the different parties, we are the majority. We can understand that and we are still willing to work with the APC representatives because as far as we are in the House, we are careless about the political party. We want the best among us to lead us because this time it is going to be different.

“We have seven political parties in this 10th Assembly- PDP, SDP, LP, YPP, AP, and YDP. We have so many parties and the people who understand what is happening in this country know why because Nigerians want change and they do not care about the vehicle. All they care about is the change.

READ MORE:
https://applesbite.com/with-opposition-in-majority-apc-cant-determine-next-speaker/

APC will easily win the speakership.

APC are the majority party in the house but they do not have a majority. There's a big difference between the two.

Na Tinubu go be president oooo when them go do d election, no be Buhari. I bet you, APC would produce the principal officers and na Tinubu candidates go still win