The leadership of the House of
Representatives yesterday dismissed as false the allegation by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) Loyalists Group, that the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara,
was planning to bar lawmakers opposed to him from today’s plenary.
It stated that such thought
existed only in the mind of the group that it accused of struggling to come to
terms with the fact that it had lost out in the bid to instal a leadership of
its choice.
The Loyalists Group is made up of
APC lawmakers, who backed Femi Gbajabiamila in the speakership contest and his
later move to become the majority leader of the chamber.
The House resumes today after
weeks of recess which many suspect was to enable the House address the
lingering crisis over the zoning of principal offices.
Dogara had on July 16, written
the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John
Odigie-Oyegun, informing him of the zoning of principal offices in line with
the federal character principle. He had zoned the position of majority leader
to North-West and deputy chief whip to South-East.
This was in contrast to the
arrangement send to the speaker by the APC chairman, in which the post of
majority leader was zoned to the South-West and Gbajabiamila penciled for it.
Credit: The Sun
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