Mr Abbas, an aspirant for the speakership of the House of Representatives, said North-west produced almost 26 per cent of the 360 members of the House and gave APC 2.7 million votes in the presidential election.
He said the region deserves the speaker and deputy senate president because of the number of lawmakers-elect from there and large number of votes it gave the party during the 25 February presidential election.
Secondly, the North-West has 93 members out of 360 which is almost 26 percent of the entire members of the House of Reps; that is another factor that needs to be considered. He also dismissed the report of protest by lawmakers, stating that none of his colleagues has raised the issue of marginalisation on the zoning arrangement.
“The fact that you contribute more than any other member in the 9th assembly? You are qualified based on public and private sector experience. Does that make me weak? What people need to understand is to go and look at the pedigree and the antecedent of every member, the issue of being rubber stamp is neither here nor there,” Mr Abbas said.Currently, there are ten other aspirants in the race.
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