A ranking member of the House in the PDP disclosed in an interview with one of our correspondents how the opposition members shared the
The lawmaker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “We have already given the Labour Party one slot, the NNPP also got a slot, while the PDP has two. Out of the two taken by the PDP, there is one in the North and the other in the South. The agreement is this: two for the South and two for the North. Let the North go and decide where their two will come from, while the South decides on zonal sharing.
While the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, is from the North-West, the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, is from the South-East. He also suggested that the majority caucus could consider the zones missing from the minority leadership as well as females for gender balancing.
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