10th Assembly: Put APC on Its Toes, Damagum Charges PDP House Members-elect •Group promises to respect APC zoning arrangements Udora Orizu and Juliet Akoje in Abuja Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assemb
Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly in June, the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party , Umar Damagum, has charged the party’s members-elect in the House of Representatives to put the ruling All Progressives Congress on their toes.
“You have a daunting task before you because of the state of the nation. You have been elected at a time when the country is no longer what we used to know. It has been bedeviled by so many vices and people are looking up to you to correct the rot. “When you have an election year, there will be a lot of crises. If you look at it from your primaries up to the time when you were elected, you have gone through a lot and I know the party is going through the same kind of situations. But one thing I want to assure you is that PDP has the mechanism to solve its own problems.
“I always have hope in the House of Representatives. I am not saying the Senate is not doing much but you are the people that are directly closer to the constituencies and much is expected of you and I hope that ours is going to be a joint credible opposition and we’ll give it to them. We’ll put them to task, we’ll put them on their toes to make sure that the right thing is done in this country because this is what need at this moment,” he said.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Joint Task-10th Assembly, Hon. Usman Kumo, who spoke at the inauguration of the forum in Abuja yesterday, said the forum had no preferred candidate for the office of the speaker of the 10th House but to ensure that the expectations of Nigerians were met.
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