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Rep crisis: Dep Speaker, Lasun talks tough
Ahead of the meeting scheduled to hold with President Muhammadu Buhari to seemingly find a lasting solution to the leadership crisis in the House of Representatives, a key player in the crisis, Deputy Speaker, Yussuf Lasun has said that he would not resign from his position.
The legislature who spoke on Monday when his kinsmen, the Ilobu Development Association, Osun, Abuja branch paid him a solidarity visit in his office, asserted, that no matter the level of pressure on him to step down, he would not heed.
There have been pressure from some of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, Chieftains and the government of Osun State on the Deputy Speaker to resign for Femi Gbajabiamila who was the party’s adopted candidate in the election of presiding officer of the House on June 9.
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But Lasun said that his constituency has been playing prominent role for the victory of the opposition party which is now the ruling party since 2007, adding that stepping down was not possible for him.
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