The race for the leadership of the 9th session of the National Assembly is on, just a week after the election into the legislative arm.
race for the leadership of the 9th session of the National Assembly is on, just a week after the election into the legislative arm.The Nation can now reveal that no fewer than five candidates are seeking to head the 9th Senate when it is inaugurated in June.
For now, only the current Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, is the front runner in the race for the Speakership of the Green Chambers, although the Peoples Democratic Party is allegedly hatching a plot to push outgoing Speaker Yakubu Dogara for a return to the seat.
The Nation also gathered that some forces in APC want party leaders to prevail on the President to give members of the National Assembly a free hand to elect their leaders. Following the development, all the candidates aspiring to lead the Senate and the House have started reaching out to elected PDP members.
“This jostling for power is despite of the fact that the APC is yet to define its zoning or power sharing formula. Those aspiring to lead the National Assembly are banking on the 2015 formula of the APC, which ceded the Senate Presidency to the Northeast and the Speaker to the Southwest, before the President of the Senate, Speaker Dogara and some APC lawmakers revolted.
Sources said that although Gbajabiamila has a brighter chance to be the next Speaker, the PDP might still resist him. “The only challenge APC is facing is about likely imposition of the Senate President and the Speaker. Most of the candidates want the race left open equitably.
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