National Assembly Leadership: Will The APC Consensus Plan Fail?

According to the analytical article of This Day, All Progressives Congress (APC) makes the last effort to present consensus candidates for the leadership of the National Assembly in the climate of “suspicion” and “disparity”.

Chuks Okocha, Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Omololu Ogunmade who are the authors of this article state that the leadership of APC decided to hold mock elections for the posts of speaker and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives as well as senate president and deputy senate president.

However, they note that the exercise was marred by boycotts. The authors explain: “During the voting for the House, some of the major contenders staged a walkout, while the voting for the senate was boycotted by a key contender, Senator Bukola Saraki from Kwara State, after it became clear that the APC leadership was backing the other main contestant, Senator Ahmed Lawan from Yobe State. But in what looked like a mere affirmation, Lawan won the endorsement of the party as its sole candidate for Tuesday’s election on the floor of the senate to choose the President of Senate.”

Further the source stated that after many weeks of horse-trading, the APC House members-elect yesterday picked Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as the party’s candidate for the office of speaker of the House of Representatives.

This Day adds that the APC mock election was marred by a walkout by two key contenders for the office of speaker, the former chairman of house services committee, Hon. Yakubu Dogara from Bauchi State, and Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin from Kano State, and their supporters.

“In a joint statement issued under the auspices of the “8th Assembly Consolidation Group,” Dogara and Jibrin frowned on the decision of the APC leadership to ignore the group’s request for a 24-hour delay of the mock election to enable them prepare and mobilise their supports since they were not given prior information. They described the exercise as an ambush,”  the authors say.

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