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AbbeyRuth:
Until the rotten tooth is removed the mouth must chew with caution! Th yearning of Nigerians is nothing but dividends of democracy not the cacophonous hollering bedeviling the NASS because of selfish interests

Is Hon. Patrick your brother ?

i thought they settled this issue already...

ITbomb:
War don start be that

APC is a collection of disgruntled fellows who could not have their personal interest in PDP.

Rightfully said

chamboy:
I agree with u bro, buh kudos to dem for ideating change.. D change we would Continue Until All this ROUGES are outta power...

which change?

ascaris:
Amen oooh..

It can never be Over until it is over, meaning till APC losses the centre because the party is a conglomeration of greedy and self centered assholes

ascaris:
Amen oooh..

It can never be Over until it is over, meaning till APC losses the centre because the party is a conglomeration of greedy and self centered assholes

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sunshine1974:
Saraki group supports Ndume, Yerima for senate leader, chief whip
By Chuks Okocha, Omololu Ogunmade, Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Muhammad Bello in Abuja, and Adams Abonu in Lafia

All Progressives Congress continued to talk over the recent resentments regarding the headship of the National Assembly with the party’s legislators at the weekend to try to prevent the problem from festering. Last week, the party was said to have proposed concessions aimed at accommodating key interest groups in the sharing of principal posts. But such moves were opposed by supporters of the new leaders of the National Assembly.


In the House of Representatives, a proposal by the APC leadership to concede the post of House Leader to Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who was the party’s choice for the speakership, was opposed by the new Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.


Dogara had defeated Gbajabiamila in the contest for speaker on June 9 owing to collaboration between a section of APC’s 225 members and Peoples Democratic Party’s 125 members, a situation that enraged the APC leadership.
Dogara’s argument, THISDAY gathered, was that the South-west, where Gbajabiamila hails from, had already produced the deputy speaker in the person of Hon. Yusuf Lasun, and could not rightly produce the majority leader while there were zones that were yet to get any principal position.


A source, however, said the position of chief whip of the House of Representatives had been zoned to the South-south, with Hon. Pally Iriase representing Owan East federal constituency of Edo State, being tipped to occupy the position.
In the Senate, THISDAY learnt that the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, had no issues with whoever occupied the remaining principal positions. However, his supporters, under the aegis of Senators of Like Mind, ruled out the possibility of conceding the office of Senate Majority Leader to the Senate Unity Forum, a group of senators loyal to Senator Ahmed Lawan. Lawan was Saraki’s main rival in the contest for the senate presidency.


Saraki had emerged senate president on June 9 with the votes of 57 senators, comprising mainly the bloc votes of Peoples Democratic Party’s 49 senators, against his party, APC’s favourite, Lawan. Most of the 59 APC senators in the 109-member Senate were away, reportedly, for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on how to resolve the divisions in the party when the election of the senate president took place. In the House of Representatives, too, a similar collaboration between a section of APC and PDP members, backed by the Saraki group, had led to the emergence of Dogara as Speaker, contrary to the nomination of Gbajabiamla for the post by the APC leadership.


The outcome of the election of the National Assembly leadership set off a crisis that has continued to make the majority party’s hold on the legislature wobbly.    
But last week, the leadership of APC under its national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, put forward suggestions to try to douse the tensions by conceding some of the remaining principal positions in both chambers of the National Assembly to members of the Senate Unity Forum, which is widely believed to be supported by the APC national leader, Bola Tinubu.


Backed by the APC leadership, the Senate Unity Forum was said to be pushing for the election of Lawan and Senator George Akume as Senate Majority Leader and Deputy Senate Majority Leader, respectively, and Professor Olusola Adeyeye as Senate Chief Whip and Abu Ibrahim as Deputy Chief Whip.
A reliable source among the Senators of Like Mind told THISDAY yesterday in confidence that the group had settled for Ndume (Borno South) as the next senate leader. He also disclosed that the group had resolved to elect Senator Ahmad Sani, nicknamed Yerima (Zamfara North), as the senate whip.


The source further told THISDAY that at a meeting of the APC leadership with senators on Thursday, there were suggestions that the office of the senate leader should be conceded to Lawan as compensation over his loss to Saraki. But according to the Saraki supporter, conceding such a sensitive position to a rival group may create problems for the senate president. He, however, said the Senators of Like Mind were ready to concede the posts of deputy senate leader and deputy whip to the Senate Unity Group.


He said, “Immediately Bukola emerged as the senate president, we held a meeting that the senate leader must be somebody from the group. Otherwise, it will create trouble for us. So we resolved that we must get somebody from our group as senate leader or whip because if we don't, it will create confusion.


“At the initial stage, other members said we must take position. They wanted Ahmad Lawan to be senate leader, but we said no, because we want somebody among us. Our decision is that Ali Ndume will be senate leader and Yerima will be the whip. They are free to take from the remaining two positions – deputy senate leader or deputy whip."


The source said APC had zoned positions in the National Assembly but lacked the “political will to enforce the zoning.”
In a similar vein, Yerima and Danjuma Goje, members of the Saraki group, said at separate interviews with newsmen yesterday in Abuja that the alleged move by APC to fill the remaining principal positions with ranking members of the Senate Unity Forum amounted to unlawful imposition.


Yerima said, “The Senate Majority Leader, Deputy Majority Leader, Senate Chief Whip, Deputy Chief Whip are elected by the caucuses and the 8th Assembly cannot be different. The best thing the party can do, given the circumstances, is to give us directives. Any attempt to impose will be resisted and this will further divide the party.”
Goje stated, “Imposition and impunity were what drove us away from the PDP.”


But a spokesman for the Lawan group, Senator Kabir Marafa, dismissed the position of the Saraki supporters as perpetuation of lawlessness. He told THISDAY by telephone, “Our group is meeting with the party and the president. For people who felt they didn't win election through the party, they can do whatever they want. All l know is that the leadership of APC will decide who holds whatever office.”

THISDAY gathered that members of the group met yesterday in Keffi, Nasarawa State, to perfect moves to invalidate the election of Saraki and PDP’s Ike Ekweremadu as senate president and deputy senate president, respectively. A prominent senate source who was privy to the plans said many senators “attended the meeting at the instance of one of their colleagues and many steps towards reclaiming the lost mandate were discussed. Many of the senators were enraged that the party could not sanction the utter contempt with which some of its members treated the party and, hence, decided to prevail on the party’s leadership to toe the line of discipline.”


In a related development, PDP governors and the party’s National Working Committee are billed to meet tomorrow to discuss modalities for the sharing of the minority posts in the Senate and House of Representatives. The NWC, led by the acting PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, would also at the meeting debate the issue of the election of a substantive chairman, THISDAY learnt. 


The National Working Committee of APC met last week in Abuja and considered various options to try to reconcile its members in the National Assembly. The NWC initiated several consultative sessions and discussed the sharing of the remaining principal offices.
Odigie-Oyegun in a statement on Friday said the party had reached out to all interested parties, stressing that when the National Assembly resumes this week, Nigerians would see one harmonious, happy APC family.


“We owe it to our party, our teeming members and supporters and, indeed, all Nigerians, who reposed so much confidence in us by voting us into office, to quickly put the unfortunate incidents of the recent past behind us and forge ahead,'' he said.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dogara-resists-apc-leaders-move-to-appoint-gbajabiamila-as-majority-leader/212660/

association of political propangandists(APC). You guys will spend the four years scrambling for positions. Tufiakwa!

Thank you o Daddy DOGA!
Gbaja dis, Gbaja dat!
To hell with all these TINUBU stooges!
Mtcheeeeeew!

Na only GBAJA-GBAJA waka come chop?

Abeg na AFEMAI LAND turn to get the position o!

Edo State MUST CHOP ke!

Ahmeduana:
ARE YOU GETTING TIRED?

lol just fed up with the issue they are dealing with.

clears throat!
APC is seriously having issues not with the fact that it has won elections but the fact that some people in the name of leadership are imposing themselves into a grabbing position.
I think PMB should look them with a long stick,so as not to get himself in rofo rofo!

APC will go down in history as the first Ruling-Opposition party in Nigeria.

funlord:
nigerians never see anything yet! Una carry "execuTHIEVES", mix them with "senaTHIEVES", come sprinkle them with house of" rePOSESSION" members, come top am off by making their party leaders old and expired "poliTHIEFCIANS"! Then una come say make dem start to dey make laws wey go save the nation? We have just succeeded in creating an assembly filled with a bunch of "legisLOOTERS"! Na OYO state the masses dey live inside oh! Wake up!

Exactly. God bless Nigeria.

We are tired of OGA AT THE TOP

Who's dis Oga at d top?

dododawa1:
We are tired of OGA AT THE TOP

This is the mess that the sophisticated ones put us ...no wonder wise ones always come from east

Cluessness is under statement ..APC are just checking confusion and stupidity daily

lurther:
Allowing Tinubu's group like lawan, Akume and Gbajabiamila to hold this principal positions will be very risky and a stupid position for the saraki/Dogara to take. It will definitely jeopardise their chances of retaining their seats.

As hardcore politicians, Saraki/Daogara should know the machiavelli's 'The Prince' of how to obtain power and maintain power. They have gotten this power and they need to maintain it. By maintaining it, they need to decimate Tinubu's boys to Zero level, so that they would have Zero chance of threat to their new found positions of power.

Saraki and Dogara, dont loose-guard to Tinubu's plan B. You need to maintain and sustain your power for the next four years by not allowing Tinub's boys raise their head in the both national assembly chambers.

Saraki...I trust you are a Hardcore politician, Dogara... let me see what stuff you are made of.

You think saraki is a fool? He is agreeing on the surface while his boys are disagreeing on the surface you should know that behind the scene, they had already planed how to go about it. They are using police/civilian strategy. When you are harassed by a police, especially when you are in the car with your friend, just be raking and forming you are on your right while your friend should be begging for you. Before you know it, the police will be confused and you will settle the matter. That's what Saraki and boys are doing. Dogara seems hard cored though all of them are thesame. All thieves only that some are better. Am sure they knew the consequences of their action and we're willing to go all the way.

spenca:
I thought APC was a party ?

are u single?

lurther:
Allowing Tinubu's group like lawan, Akume and Gbajabiamila to hold this principal positions will be very risky and a stupid position for the saraki/Dogara to take. It will definitely jeopardise their chances of retaining their seats.

As hardcore politicians, Saraki/Daogara should know the machiavelli's 'The Prince' of how to obtain power and maintain power. They have gotten this power and they need to maintain it. By maintaining it, they need to decimate Tinubu's boys to Zero level, so that they would have Zero chance of threat to their new found positions of power.

Saraki and Dogara, dont loose-guard to Tinubu's plan B. You need to maintain and sustain your power for the next four years by not allowing Tinub's boys raise their head in the both national assembly chambers.

Saraki...I trust you are a Hardcore politician, Dogara... let me see what stuff you are made of.

the truth is that there is nothing Saraki or Dogora can do about majority leaders and other elective post in the National assembly, the majority of their party members are not in their camp,Dogara has 30 Apc members to Femi's 180,Saraki has 9 senators to Lawan 52 it's only common sense that they will vote for their own people, Saraki still has chairmanship post to fill same with Dogora he can easily give his men those position and everyone will rest, the problem is giving those post to members of PDP.there is nothing they can do to be honest just like the party leadership can't do anything when they emerge,My advice for the party leadership is to expel Saraki,Dogara and other members immediately no matter what,they can move to PDP but an example has to be set, one person cannot be greater than the Majority.

funlord:
nigerians never see anything yet! Una carry "execuTHIEVES", mix them with "senaTHIEVES", come sprinkle them with house of" rePOSESSION" members, come top am off by making their party leaders old and expired "poliTHIEFCIANS"! Then una come say make dem start to dey make laws wey go save the nation? We have just succeeded in creating an assembly filled with a bunch of "legisLOOTERS"! Na OYO state the masses dey live inside oh! Wake up!

Hahahahahaha, na u bad pass everybody" lovely write up.

agarawu23:
lol just fed up with the issue they are dealing with.

THAT SHOWS YOU THAT NO POLITICIAN IS WORTH DYING FOR, YOU CAN ONLY PICK THE LESSER EVIL OUT OF TWO EVILS.

In politics, we ave dat of personal interest and people interest. Am not deterred by what is apnin now because it is expected but am only concern with dem getting over d personal interest as fast as possible and move to d people interest asap.We all wish for change in dis country but in d same country there Ar people working day & night so DAT d change never come.Well regardless of parties and tribal sentiments DAT has bn d major cause of what I call blinded & unnecessary criticism of d new government here on NL,I believe we will still thank God at d end for bringing in dis new government because by God grace things will b better am very sure of DAT. To all critics pls let's our main aim of criticizing b for d success of d government & our people because criticism here on nairaland has always been focusing on d failures and failures dey wish to come on d new government. Lets be patient with ourselves & our new government. They will deliver by God grace.. Happy Sunday to u all

Is there any body in-here dat wasn't expecting conflict of interest in APthief ? the only common goal they share was to send GEJ to Otuoke. More are yet to unveil itself, giv dem time and they will giv us more.

They should stop the power tussle and start fixing the country haba! What sort of an embarrassment is this?

Sen. Saraki, the SP is from the North central (kwara) so it's not fair that the Senate Majority Dep. leader(Akume, Benue) should also come from same North central region. The SS, NE and even SW are still not represented.

masseratti:
the truth is that there is nothing Saraki or Dogora can do about majority leaders and other elective post in the National assembly, the majority of their party members are not in their camp,Dogara has 30 Apc members to Femi's 180,Saraki has 9 senators to Lawan 52 it's only common sense that they will vote for their own people, Saraki still has chairmanship post to fill same with Dogora he can easily give his men those position and everyone will rest, the problem is giving those post to members of PDP.there is nothing they can do to be honest just like the party leadership can't do anything when they emerge,My advice for the party leadership is to expel Saraki,Dogara and other members immediately no matter what,they can move to PDP but an example has to be set, one person cannot be greater than the Majority.

What you sow is what you reap. You wont sow a mango seed and expect to reap orange fruits.
Tinubu and co sowed Tambuwalism in the HOR in 2011 when they teamed up with some Pdp members to elect Tambuwal as their Speaker against the Pdp's prefered candidate. So they should stop making noise and accept their fate.

lurther:
Allowing Tinubu's group like lawan, Akume and Gbajabiamila to hold this principal positions will be very risky and a stupid position for the saraki/Dogara to take. It will definitely jeopardise their chances of retaining their seats.

As hardcore politicians, Saraki/Daogara should know the machiavelli's 'The Prince' of how to obtain power and maintain power. They have gotten this power and they need to maintain it. By maintaining it, they need to decimate Tinubu's boys to Zero level, so that they would have Zero chance of threat to their new found positions of power.

Saraki and Dogara, dont loose-guard to Tinubu's plan B. You need to maintain and sustain your power for the next four years by not allowing Tinub's boys raise their head in the both national assembly chambers.

Saraki...I trust you are a Hardcore politician, Dogara... let me see what stuff you are made of.

People of your caliber are political whoremonger,enemy of change.

Let them conduct a free and fair election in the houses. Enough of this IMPOSITIONS !

God will help us in dis country oooo

Ahmeduana:
THAT SHOWS YOU THAT NO POLITICIAN IS WORTH DYING FOR, YOU CAN ONLY PICK THE LESSER EVIL OUT OF TWO EVILS.

of cus

we argue and support party here doesn't mean we can take bullet from them. its all political game

agarawu23:
this their wahala don dey too much jare after all it's just for their own personal interest.

you made me laugh out loud for dis ur comment,they are truly after their own pocket

emamos:
you made me laugh out loud for dis ur comment,they are truly after their own pocket

abi na

Blackfire:
are u single?

Relevance ?

funlord:
nigerians never see anything yet! Una carry "execuTHIEVES", mix them with "senaTHIEVES", come sprinkle them with house of" rePOSESSION" members, come top am off by making their party leaders old and expired "poliTHIEFCIANS"! Then una come say make dem start to dey make laws wey go save the nation? We have just succeeded in creating an assembly filled with a bunch of "legisLOOTERS"! Na OYO state the masses dey live inside oh! Wake up!

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