The crisis rocking the National Working Committee (NWC) of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) might have been temporarily resolved, it’s has
A similar letter from the party was sent to the president of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, on the party’s choice of Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe and others as its minority leaders in the Red Chamber. But the speaker, unlike his president of the Senate, announced different names for the various minority leadership positions.
Over 100 members of the 147-member caucus comprising PDP, APGA, ADC, LP, SDP, PRP, AA, APM, ADP signed and communicated a letter indicating their choice of minority leader to the speaker in a letter dated 2nd July 2019. The political intricacies that played out in the process are even visible to the blind.
The six other members suspended were deputy minority leader, Toby Ockechukwu; minority whip, Hon. Gideon Gwani; deputy minority whip, Hon. Adekoya Abdul-Majid.; the chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Hon Wole Oke; Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration Hon. Lynda Ikpeazu;, chairman, House Committee on Reformatory Institutions Hon. Anayo Edwin.
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