₦airaland Forum

The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as represented in the chaos in the National Assembly especially in the House of Representatives refused to abate on Friday, July 24, 2015, as the meeting called by the party leaders to find some respite to it did not yield any positive result.Rather, the division was allegedly widened as the Deputy Speaker, Lasun Yusuf, who was said to have been made the centre of discussion at the meeting refused  to agree to pleas made on him to respect the party by stepping down for a candidate of the party to take his seat.The party leaders had  summoned the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and his deputy, Yusuf Suleiman Lasun, as part of efforts at resolving the leadership crisis at the National Assembly over the logjam in selection of principal officers.The Osun State Governor was also at the meeting.The resumption of the lower parliament was extended by one week by the speaker till next Tuesday in an effort at finding a more amicable solution to the crisis threatening the party caucus in the House.Speaker Dogara and his team have consistently refused to accept the nomination of candidates submitted by the party leadership for the positions of Principal Officers, of which the group had consistently expressed disdain to the candidature of Femi Gbajabiamila as a principal officer.Gbajabiamila and Dogara had engaged in a fierce political battle for the office of the Speaker which was won at the end of the day by Dogara.Since then, every attempt by the party leaders to compensate Gbajabiamila whom they supported for the Speakership with another position in the principal officers cadre,  had been rejected by Dogara and his men.The rejection of Gbajabiamila is being premised on the fact that the Deputy Speaker, is from the South West and so, the zone should not produce another Principal Officer.Sources within the party said that Friday’s meeting was called by the party leaders to seek amicable resolution to the issue ahead of the resumption of the parliament in three days time.Dogara and Lasun were invited to meetings with the party leaders yesterday at different times, as the meeting with Dogara was concluded before Lasun was invited in with the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola to a closed-door meeting with the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) led by its Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun.Governor Aregbesola it was gathered was given the task of talking to Lasun and make him see reasons why he should honour the party by stepping down from his position to enable the party put a candidate of its choice in the office of the Deputy Speaker.However, the meeting held was not fruitful as the Deputy Speaker was said to have blatantly refused to accept any plans to have him vacate office.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/07/nass-crisis-deputy-speaker-rejects-plea-step/

what type of democratic process Iis this ...
You Gbagaban the son of jagaban is so power hungry to the point they have to call one of thier own to step down for him A man that was elected by all?
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Shame on APC and their style of democracy!
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This only happens when u make fura'd nunu and kuli kuli the official beverage and snack of Aso rock

APC south-weak hustling for power since the change era

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SouthernBreeze:
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for condom

I laff in #arabic hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha
Tinubu has been reduced to a nobody

must that fool Gbajabiamila hold the country to Ransom because of his ambition?
this is unprecedented and the virulent career critics of the sophisticated region are all mute.
imagine if it was another individual from another part of the country....
Wole Soyinka,Femi Falana et al would have all been shouting themselves hoarse with their hypocritical criticism.

pistol:
must that fool Gbajabiamila hold the country to Ransom because of his ambition?
this is unprecedented and the virulent career critics of the sophisticated region are all mute.
imagine if it was another individual from another part of the country....
Wole Soyinka,Femi Falana et al would have all been shouting themselves hoarse with their hypocritical criticism.

you are the foool here. If there's anyone that deserve anything in this APC government, it is gbaja.

shachris02:
you are the foool here. If there's anyone that deserve anything in this APC government, it is gbaja.

if he deserve something, give him amala

shachris02:
you are the foool here. If there's anyone that deserve anything in this APC government, it is gbaja.

You must be a foooolll from the pit of hell, how will a man that claims he loves this zoo so much hold us to ransom all because of his personal ambition.
You better borrow a "thinking-cap", its like you don't have any, or the one you have is too small

coolestrogue:
You must be a foooolll from the pit of hell, how will a man that claims he loves this zoo so much hold us to ransom all because of his personal ambition.
You better borrow a "thinking-cap", its like you don't have any, or the one you have is too small

wailer. do you know trouble gbaja undertook onbehalf of the party when he was a minority leader? all the fights.

do you know that in other democracies, a minority leader must eventually graduate into speakership when the party ascends to power?

I pray someone take what is duely yours.....what you suffered and worked So hard for. Amen.

shachris02:
wailer. do you know trouble gbaja undertook onbehalf of the party when he was a minority leader? all the fights.

do you know that in other democracies, a minority leader must eventually graduate into speakership when the party ascends to power?

I pray someone take what is duely yours.....what you suffered and worked So hard for. Amen.

That is how you guys failed it, you don't have to be the speaker to perform your duty. Let's take it as the ultimate price he paid for our democracy. If lay men like you and me have this kind of mentality, I pity our future generations. It is not his exclusive right, other zones should be accommodated for the sake of fairness, he should let peace reign. How can a man all because of his own ambition, hold over 150m people to ransom?
Like I said, he has paid the price, history will always remember him.

coolestrogue:
That is how you guys failed it, you don't have to be the speaker to perform your duty. Let's take it as the ultimate price he paid for our democracy. If lay men like you and me have this kind of mentality, I pity our future generations. It is not his exclusive right, other zones should be accommodated for the sake of fairness, he should let peace reign. How can a man all because of his own ambition, hold over 150m people to ransom?
Like I said, he has paid the price, history will always remember him.

it's not about his ambition man. those are party ethics. the only ambitious person here is dogara. which ethnicity is dogara? which ethnicity is the Senate president? what ethnicity is the president? If we really have to be fair, in all sides, that position should have gone to femi. dogara shouldn't have contested at all.

shachris02:
it's not about his ambition man. those are party ethics. the only ambitious person here is dogara. which ethnicity is dogara? which ethnicity is the Senate president? what ethnicity is the president? If we really have to be fair, in all sides, that position should have gone to femi. dogara shouldn't have contested at all.

But the south west got the post of the VP and vice speaker to themselves, what else do you guys want again?
One thing you fail to realise is that, the party was built on a sandy foundation, its a party of too many ambitious fellows, who are bent on sacrificing the party's ambition just for their own personal gains.
If this situation is not managed well, don't be surprised that 2019, apc may not come back to power. The only person I see as a credible person from the north to take over from PMB is tambuwal, already he's been seen as a traitor. So let's give peace a chance and allow PMB performs well as he promised on his electioneering campaign.

I hope this stop on time

coolestrogue:
But the south west got the post of the VP and vice speaker to themselves, what else do you guys want again?
One thing you fail to realise is that, the party was built on a sandy foundation, its a party of too many ambitious fellows, who are bent on sacrificing the party's ambition just for their own personal gains.
If this situation is not managed well, don't be surprised that 2019, apc may not come back to power. The only person I see as a credible person from the north to take over from PMB is tambuwal, already he's been seen as a traitor. So let's give peace a chance and allow PMB performs well as he promised on his electioneering campaign.

the party never gave the position of deputy speaker to sw. they party had all regions included in it's charter But dogaras ambition upturned Everything.

elbinmanny:
what type of democratic process Iis this ...
You Gbagaban the son of jagaban is so power hungry to the point they have to call one of thier own to step down for him A man that was elected by all?
.
Shame on APC and their style of democracy!
.
.
This only happens when u make fura'd nunu and kuli kuli the official beverage and snack of Aso rock

you............as in ehn?
lolz!

shachris02:
the party never gave the position of deputy speaker to sw. they party had all regions included in it's charter But dogaras ambition upturned Everything.

You go stubborn for real life, I am tired.

pistol:
must that fool Gbajabiamila hold the country to Ransom because of his ambition?
this is unprecedented and the virulent career critics of the sophisticated region are all mute.
imagine if it was another individual from another part of the country....
Wole Soyinka,Femi Falana et al would have all been shouting themselves hoarse with their hypocritical criticism.

all wat you wrote here is basic nonsense. simply trash

shachris02:
you are the foool here. If there's anyone that deserve anything in this APC government, it is gbaja.

Whatever he cannot get through the ballot, he doesn't deserve!