Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila claims the speaker of the House of
Representatives Yakubu Dogara and his loyalists in the House are planning
to defect to the opposition party, PDP. According to
The Cable, he made the claims while speaking at a meeting with President Buhari and Vice Presient
Osinbajo at the Presidential villa yesterday July 1st
"The
conduct of the 39
APC members colluding with the PDP is tantamount to affront, ultimately
targeted at polarising our party so as to give room for many of them to
decamp to the PDP. The 39 APC members in the house continue to collude
with the PDP to
flagrantly disobey Mr. President, the governors and the party with a
view to bringing the party and government to ridicule before Nigerians.
It is therefore imperative for Mr. President to take a stand and save
the integrity of the party, by cautioning, the 39 members, which include
the speaker and the deputy speaker, to respect, honour and obey our
party leaders and their directives.
The party has chosen
not to punish the 39 APC members including the elected speaker and
deputy speaker, but chose to direct, as it is customary and
conventional, on how the other four (4) principal officers should be
distributed. Alas! The opposition and the 39 members continue to hold
the ruling party in contempt by disobeying the party.
Whereas, the
beneficiaries of the disobedience are citing federal
character principle as the main reason for their disobedience. The house
of representatives is not an agency of the federal government
and the principal officers positions are elective and not by
appointment. If the federal character is applicable to the national
assembly, then both the senate president and the speaker cannot come
from the north, one of them should be advised to step down.”he said
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