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Gbajabiamila rejects Dogara’s zoning formula
The crisis in the House of Representatives over who occupies the principal offices does not seem to be abating as a faction loyal to Femi Gbajabiamila has condemned the stand by Speaker Yakubu Dogara that the positions be based on federal character.
The peace moves by the majority party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) may also have hit the rocks as the Gbajabiamila group called on the party to reject the speaker’s latest zoning proposals on principal officers.
The group, which calls itself APC Loyalists’ Group, wrote the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, formally rejecting Dogara’s proposals.
The letter dated July 18, was signed by the spokesman of the group, Mr. Nasir Zangon-Daura.
The letter called on the APC to assert its authority in party affairs rather than continue to allow Dogara get away with what it considered to be disloyalty to the party.
It noted that, having emerged as the speaker against the APC’s initial projection that the South-West should produce the speaker, the members expected Dogara to exhibit the “spirit of give and take” by allowing the APC to decide how the remaining principal offices should be shared.
The group stated, “Mr. Chairman, history beckons and posterity will always judge our conduct and contributions to the development of our democracy. A political party is an institution and its supremacy is universal and not a Nigerian coinage.
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“It is on record that the Speaker defied the party going into the elections and he is about to repeat such defiance. The party must assert its authority over all its members, the Speaker inclusive, as none of us came to the House as independent candidates and we subscribed expressly and impliedly to the party’s supremacy in political activities”.
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