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APC may lose Rep Majority Leader

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives has vowed to contest for the position of Majority Leader and other principal offices in the lower chamber should the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) fail to put its house in order.

The immediate past Deputy Majority Leader, Hon. Leo Ogor, who gave the indication in Abuja, said there was no way the opposition party will not contest for the position if the APC caucus resorts to an election.

This implies that the ruling party may lose the House Majority Leader to opposition the way it lost the position of Deputy Senate President in the Senate.

Ogor, who noted that the Majority Leader has responsibilities beyond “just being a member of the majority party” to standing for all caucuses of the House, said: “If they say they are going for election, all of us will participate.”

He added: “We are talking about the election of the House leader, not the election of the leader of a political party. Since the leader is not just for the APC but for the whole House, there is no way they can conduct the election on the floor of the House without our participation.”

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He argued that while it was true that under Rule 27(1) of the Standing Orders of the House, the leader should be nominated from among the members of the majority party, all party caucuses would have to vote for such a leader to emerge in the case of an election.

The APC controls 213 of the total 360 members of the House, while the PDP has about 139, but the two factions of the ruling party led the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and immediate past Minority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, have failed to agree on how the four principal offices should be shared.

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