10TH NASS LEADERSHIP: Adamu Under Fire For Peddling Review Of Zoning - Latest News
A party source told this paper in confidence that Adamu’s position didn’t sit well with the loyalty of Tinubu.
A source in the pro-zoning camp told LEADERSHIP weekend: “The game plan of those opposed to the zoning arrangement is known to us on this side; we know how they are discussing with the opposition to corner the leadership to themselves. “Here is a man who was into the whole game since it started and here, the same man coming clandestinely to incite some Senate presidential and House speakership aspirants to revolt against the president-elect’s decision which he took in the interior of the party and Nigeria.
To this effect, they have vowed to stop candidates singlehandedly picked by the Speaker from emerging as presiding officers in the 10th Assembly. “That was when the agenda unfolded. He was insistent that a particular candidate, from the South East should be the considered as the deputy speaker. Several speakers at the meeting opposed his choice but he was able to persuade party leaders to adopt his candidate for the position.”
“We also urged the party to note that in the 10th Assembly, it would be against our principles not to correct the anomaly in the 9th Assembly where no woman was a presiding officer. Eventually, this proposition was jettisoned,” the source added.Meanwhile, deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Idris Wase, yesterday formally declared to contest for speaker of the 10th House of Representatives.
Other aspirants in attendance are chairman House Committee on Appriopration, Hon Mukhtar Betara of ; chairman committee on intelligence in the 8th Assembly, Hon Jaji from ; chairman committee on water resources, Hon Sada Soli ; chairman committee on Navy, Yusuf Gagdi and Hon Princess Mariam Onouha This is just as he warned that crisis among party members in the National Assembly could taint the relationship between the legislature and executive, denying the people the dividends of democracy.
“I will take upon myself to reach out to the other contenders. Rt Hon Betara is my brother. We are from the same sub region, we are from the same state and I have the best relationship with him. I met him two nights ago, I will sustain that. Justifying the choice of Godswill Akpabio as Senate president, the former Borno governor said, “What we are trying to avoid is a situation whereby the number one citizen, number two citizen, the number three citizen, the number four citizen, the number four citizen are all of the same faith. That will validate the negative narrative of Islamization of Nigeria.
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