The decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to handpick Tajudeen Abass as its anointed candidate for the Speaker of the House of Representatives is no longer going as planned as the lawmakers are already shopping for another candidate, some members of the National Assembly have revealed. Some of the National Assembly members stated on Tuesday that the President, Bola Tinubu, and party leaders, would be forced to abandon Abass and might already be considering another lawmaker from the North-West region.
Nigerian Lawmakers-Elect Plot To Reject APC, Tinubu’s Anointed Candidate For House Of RepresentativesThe decision of the All Progressives Congress to handpick Tajudeen Abass as its anointed candidate for the Speaker of the House of Representatives is no longer going as planned as the lawmakers are already shopping for another candidate, some members of the National Assembly have revealed.
SaharaReporters had on Sunday reported that some federal lawmakers-elect revealed why the APC zoning arrangement for the leadership of the National Assembly could not stand. The meeting is expected to be attended by opposition senators-elect and House of Representatives members-elect from the Peoples Democratic Party , the Labour Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party , among other opposition parties at the State House in Abuja.
“The handpicking of Abass by the APC has bred a cold war between President Tinubu and former President Buhari, where the latter was said not to have been consulted before the APC NWC decided to pick Abass for the role,” one of them said. “The lawmaker they are preparing to face Tajudeen Abass is Aminu Jaji from Zamfara State, where Senator Abdulaziz Yari comes from; some of the party leaders have concluded to go for Aminu Jaji, who comes from the same state as Yari,”
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