NASS: PDP leaders, others move to back Lawan, Gbajabiamila
leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party are reaching out to newly elected or re-elected federal legislators from the party and the All Progressives Congress to ensure a rancour free election of principal officers of the 9th National Assembly.
“To many of them, it is time for the PDP to drop the toga of a party that is seen as disrupting governance through unnecessary opposition to the executive,” one of the sources told The Nation. Some of the PDP legislators who endorsed Gbajabiamila, it was learnt did so with the support of their political godfathers.
“Many of them feel it is undemocratic for the PDP to seek to prevent the majority party from forming the leadership of the national assembly through very unconventional methods like infiltrating the ranks of the ruling party and encouraging its members to disobey its directives. “That is enough to tell you that the PDP is now open to truce. It is left to the ruling party to take the fullest advantage of the trend and do more to accommodate our members-elect in the scheme of thing as the 9th assembly opens.
Consequent upon these developments, both Lawan and Gbajabiamila are said to be enjoying the support of many PDP leaders ahead of the inauguration of the 9th national assembly.
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