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PDP Taking Over Our Government Through National Assembly - Buhari

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - President Nuhammadu Buhari has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the National Assembly, by their conduct and the ongoing leadership crisis in the legislature, were allowing the Peoples Democratic Party to take over his government.</b></div>
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Buhari stated this on <i>Good Morning Nigeria,</i> a <b>Nigerian Television Authority</b>'s (NTA) live programme on Monday morning.</div>
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I have to be very sensitive to the Constitution of the country. I do not like to be told by anybody, especially the legislators that I am interfering in their matter. There are three arms of government: executive, legislature and the judiciary. </div>
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Over the last 16 years, they (lawmakers) have developed the system of choosing their leaders. There is no way I can directly interfere. All I can do through the party is to appeal to their conscience that what I already observed, we should go over it as soon as possible. </div>
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When I say 'we', I mean the APC. We cannot win the battle and lose the war. We must not allow individual personal ambition to succeed in dividing us and allow PDP to deal with us. </div>
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This is what the National Assembly has allowed so far; the APC is giving the PDP the allowance to take over the government again. This is extremely disheartening, I am very worried. </div>
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The only thing I can do is to appeal to the conscience of the APC members in the Senate and House. It took us time to get to where we are; I don't want personal ambitions to scuttle our success and therefore fail to deliver on our promises to the nation.</div>
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PDP Taking Over Our Government Through National Assembly - Buhari

ABUJA, NIGERIA - President Nuhammadu Buhari has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the National Assembly, by thei...

Gbajabiamila Emerges House Majority Leader

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - The leadership crisis in the House of Representatives appears to have been resolved as the member representing Surulere Federal Constituency of Lagos Sate, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, has emerged the Majority Leader of the House.</b></div>
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met the representatives ahead of their resumption today but the federal lawmakers emerged from the meeting singing discordant tunes, suggesting that the meeting with the president had failed.</div>
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Gbajabiamila Emerges House Majority Leader

ABUJA, NIGERIA - The leadership crisis in the House of Representatives appears to have been resolved as the member representing Suruler...

APC/NASS Crisis: Dogara Plans To Lock Us Out, Gbajabiamila Group Alleges

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - A day after some members of the All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives said they would consider the proposed list of principal Officers by the Speaker, some members loyal to Mr Femi Gbajabiamila claim there is a plan to prevent them from entering the chamber on resumption day.</b></div>
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The latest development sets aside every feeling that the leadership tussle in the House of Representatives had been resolved, <b><a href="http://www.channelstv.com/2015/07/26/dogara-plans-to-lock-us-out-gbajabiamila-camp-claims/">Channels TV</a></b> reports.</div>
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Briefing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, the spokesman for the group, Mr Nasir Zango-Daura, warned that members of his group would not tolerate any plans by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, to prevent lawmakers from going into the House of Representatives chamber on Tuesday.</div>
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Representative Zango-Daura also said the members of the faction were not aware of any concessions offered to them by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his supporters.</div>
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This is in contrast with the position of the other faction as the spokesman for the consolidation group, Abdulmumin Jibrin, while briefing journalists on Saturday said the two factions had embraced peace in the interest of the country.</div>
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Mr Dogara on July 17 sent a proposed list of principal officers of the House to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as a way of resolving the lingering leadership tussle.</div>
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In a letter sent to the chairman of the party, Mr John Oyegun, the Speaker said the list, which took proper zoning into consideration, would best reflect the principle of federal character.</div>
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The letter was written in response to Mr Oyegun’s letter to him, asking him to appoint the party's nominees into key positions, a development that has shown that the rancour between the leadership of the House and the party’s leadership over the choice of principal officers of the House had not been resolved.</div>
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APC/NASS Crisis: Dogara Plans To Lock Us Out, Gbajabiamila Group Alleges

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Pocket Your Personal Interests and Ambitions, Buhari Tells APC MPs

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that all APC faithful must collectively come together to rise above the current crisis threatening to engulf the party.</b></div>
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Buhari made the call in Abuja on Friday at the first National Executive Council (NEC) emergency meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC) after its victory at the polls.</div>
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He said ‎party members should strive to win the war (National Assembly crisis) as they won the battle (general elections).</div>
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APC has won the battle and lost the war which is a paradox of democracy and we shall see how we shall manage it.</div>
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How do we manage it? We move forward.</div>
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I have already appealed to you through the chairman, the leadership of the party, through the governors, through our lawmakers and the APC must not disappoint its constituency, the nation. </div>
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We have had to convince our ‎individual constituencies that we are worthy of sacrifices they had made in staying awake days and nights, travelling all over the country and making sure the party emerged victorious. </div>
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What subsequently happened is human and as human beings we are not perfect but let our collective actions prove that we've won the election, the battle, and we will eventually win the war.</div>
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Buhari‎ further urged the party members to honour the platform through which they won the elections and gave a background of how he contested his present position and lost three times.</div>
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"Whoever wants to run for elected office as a Nigerian must have a platform and that platform is the political parties hence the superiority of the party because that is our platform", the president said.</div>
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He told the story of the party from the beginning when other parties came together to form APC, how INEC rejected their initial merger, how the first convention was planned and who was instrumental at the initial stage.</div>
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I am going through all these (stories) because not all of us here participated in this and for you to reflect and thank the leadership of the party at various stages for going through all these which wasn’t easy. </div>
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But God in his infinite mercy has paid us by giving us success, let us not throw this success to the wind. </div>
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Let us as members of APC ‎no matter our personal differences, get together and meet the mandate given to us by this country. </div>
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This is my personal appeal and, in the name of God, whatever your personal interest is‎ and ambition, please keep it close to your heart and in your pocket. </div>
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Let APC work and let this system work and let us have a government that will earn the respect of our constituencies.</div>
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I appeal to you to please continue working together and please accept the superiority of the party….because I respect the superiority of the party, he said.</blockquote>
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The president congratulated the APC Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, for leading the party to victory and acknowledged the presence of the president of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives.</div>
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Earlier, Odigie-Oyegun said it was unfortunate that the first NEC meeting was convened hurriedly but congratulated the members on the landslide victory at the polls.</div>
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"The main item on the agenda is the ratification of aspects of members of the Board of Trustees", he said.</div>
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He lauded the character of the president and his deputy, saying APC became easily believable because of their integrity.</div>
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He said that "(APC) governors have swollen from 14 to 22 and we are still counting."</div>
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Buhari arrived at the party secretariat at 11:04 a.m. and left ‎at 12:40 p.m.</div>
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The governors of Sokoto, Kebbi, Plateau, Imo, Bauchi and Lagos ‎States were among dignitaries at the event.</div>
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Others were APC National Working Committee ‎members, state chairmen, former governors, senators and zonal leaders.<br />
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[OPINION]: Of Tambuwalism And Buhari's Headaches - By Segun Adeniyi

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<b>It was four days after I came back to Nigeria in June 2011, leaving my family behind in the United States, and a day to the inauguration of the 7th National Assembly, when I got a call from Mrs Ebere Ihedioha, asking me whether I was at home. When I replied that I was not, she pleaded with me to go home. It was a strange request that got me immediately worried. My first response was to ask whether there was any problem with her husband with whom I was earlier that day and she said there was none but the more I kept probing, the more insistent she was, “There is no problem with your friend, Segun; please, just go home and wait.”</b></div>
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Obeying Ebere’s directive, I went home to wait. Not long after, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha arrived carrying a hand luggage. What is the matter I asked? He said he and Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, (who was contesting to be Speaker with Ihedioha as his deputy) had been tipped off about a plan to arrest them that night so that they would not be in the House of Representatives the next day for the election of principal officers. I made some calls to people around the president and from their tone, it was evident that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had taken the aspiration of Tambuwal and Ihedioha as an affront to his person and authority and some enforcers were ready to do anything to ensure the president was “not humiliated”.</div>
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With that, I knew I had “political contraband” on my hands so we considered it necessary to take certain precautions. By the next day when Ihedioha left my house for the National Assembly, dressed in an unusual “babanriga”, nobody was certain how the drama would play out. But he and Tambuwal (who also did not sleep in his house and was camouflaged with an Ijaw hat that morning) eventually made it to the House chambers on that fateful day of 6th June, 2011. The rest, as they say, is now history.</div>
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However, what happened at that period was for me a gross abuse of presidential powers. I did not see what crimes Tambuwal and Ihedioha committed to warrant being hunted, just because they nurtured ambition. Besides, I saw how the whole episode was mismanaged by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the president who refused to see reason with the majority of House members, especially within his party, that the results of the 2011 general election had made the PDP zoning formula untenable.</div>
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I have read so many reports about the “Tambuwal rebellion” in recent weeks even as the All Progressives Congress (APC) has continued to make the same mistakes that the PDP made in 2011. But the wrong parallels are being drawn. And because of that, President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party’s leaders are compounding the problem for which they may pay very dearly if they do not make a course correction. As I said, it was the presidency and PDP that must take the blame for what happened in the House four years ago.</div>
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With the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) sweeping the 2011 polls in the South West, most of the prominent PDP members, including then sitting Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, were defeated. In fact, in the entire six states within the region, only five PDP members were elected. To worsen matters, even when the South-west PDP caucus had endorsed Hon Ajibola Sabauna Muraina (at a meeting attended by all key members at the residence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who was at the time the Board of Trustees Chairman), some people in Abuja decided to jettison that decision to anoint Hon Mulikat Akande-Adeola for the office of Speaker.</div>
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It is therefore incorrect to say that Tambuwal was elected speaker by the opposition. In the House in 2011, the PDP had 203 members followed by the defunct ACN with 69 members. The equally defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) came third with 38 members while the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) had 28 members. Other parties with members in the House were Labour Party, eight; All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), seven; Accord Party, five; Democratic Peoples Party, one; and Peoples Party of Nigeria, one member. Yet, despite all the bribery and intimidation from some presidential do-gooders, Tambuwal still won with 74 percent of the total votes cast, essentially because he had overwhelming support from PDP members.</div>
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Four years later, APC leaders have not learned any lesson from that experience. With the president saying publicly on the eve of the assembly inauguration that he had no dogs in the fights, the resolve of the party leaders who were using his “body language” to sell some candidates in the contest had been severely weakened. And it was no surprise that the PDP capitalized on that to produce the deputy senate president. But the real problem now is that with the elections of principal officers won and lost, what is happening in the National Assembly is a disgrace that does not in any way advance the interest of either the president or that of the APC. It is even more unfortunate that respected leaders like Chief Bisi Akande would be making ethnic imputations to what party leaders should ordinarily accept as a temporary setback and move on.</div>
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I fail to understand how ethnic conspiracy came into what is going on in the National Assembly.Pa Akande and his group wanted an Ahmed as Senate President and a George as his deputy as well as a Femi for Speaker and a Monguno as his deputy. Fair enough. At the end, they got a Bukola (married to a Toyin) as Senate President and an Ike as his deputy as well as a Yakubu for Speaker and a Lasunkanmi for deputy. Pray, how does such an arrangement work against the interest of Yoruba people just because their preferred candidates lost?</div>
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However, any discerning reader of events cannot but understand the nature and context of the power struggle going on within the APC against the background of the forces that combined to ensure the victory of President Buhari at the polls. But the way Pa Akande and his group seem to be framing issues, abusing and maligning those with whom they disagree is not only dangerous for the health of our polity, it is also counterproductive. Sometimes, it is strategic to concede a battle to win the war but some people believe they just must win every battle hence the current recourse to some self-serving politics of identity.</div>
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What the APC leaders must realize is that politics is about managing conflicts and as the new ruling party, they should take the National Assembly upheavals as part of their learning curve. With just one month in the saddle and one crisis, party leaders are already planning to pull down the house they sacrificed so much to build. Yet, if the APC leaders will be honest with themselves, the problem in the National Assembly stems from the attempt to sacrifice principle for expediency. From the United States where we borrowed the presidential system of government, the leadership of Congress is never an imposition from outside but rather a process of consensus built by the members themselves with the usual practice being that the Minority Leader becomes Speaker once his/her party wins a majority of seats at the next election cycle.</div>
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Ordinarily, the APC leaders would have been on solid ground if they had insisted on Senator George Akume as candidate for senate presidency and Femi Gbajabiamila for House Speaker. With both of them being Minority Leaders going into the election, the APC leaders could have used that to make a compelling argument about “party supremacy.” But the moment the election of presiding officers was made to look as if one all-powerful “maximalist” politician was trying to impose his own candidates on both the House and the Senate (which is not entirely true), the problem started.</div>
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Nothing describes the situation in the Senate today better than the Yoruba adage, “adie ba lokun, ara o rokun, ara o ro adie” for both the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the APC—the import of which is that there can be no peace for either until they come together to resolve their differences. But that will not happen until President Buhari begins to play the right politics. The message is simple: There is nowhere in the world where an elected president in a polity with such aggressive partisanship as ours can afford to be apolitical on matters that are tearing his party apart so early in the life of his administration.</div>
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For instance, if the president had intervened after Saraki became Senate President by calling all APC senators for a meeting and reiterating the need for Ahmed Lawan to be compensated with the position of Majority Leader (the way President Jonathan did in 2011 for Hon Akande-Adeola in the House), the outcome would have been different. Whatever the misgivings against Saraki’s emergence as Senate President, the fact remains that he could not have foisted Senator Lawan on his colleagues as Majority Leader without his hands being strengthened from Aso Rock. That did not happen.</div>
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Now, before I go further, I want to make something clear. The most common charge against Saraki is that he is “too ambitious”. It is ridiculous. Any politician who says he/she has no ambition is either a fool or a fraud. So having the ambition to be president of Nigeria in 2019 (if that is his desire) should not count against Saraki. For me, that is not an issue. What some people from my state, Kwara, hold against Saraki is not his ambition, which is legitimate but rather the exploitation of, and seeming disdain for, the ordinary people. That is where Saraki needs to look himself in the mirror again if he is to avoid hubris.</div>
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Because he is young, brilliant, politically savvy and self-assured with a network of friends across the country, Saraki has so much going for him. But there are legitimate concerns about what he stands for by both friends and foes alike and he has them in equal measure. Since I do not want to digress too much (I will come back to deal with the Saraki issue in future), what I will stress here is that Saraki will make a good Senate President only if he can bring himself to realize that power mongering for its own sake or for the promotion of personal interest would bring neither fulfillment nor enduring legacy. I hope he gets the message that material possession counts for little and begins to think of what he would be remembered for when the history of this era is written.</div>
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However, APC and the president should come to terms with the fact that Saraki is the Senate President now and relate with him. That was the mistake President Jonathan made when he and the people around him continued to undermine Tambuwal who was able to rally his colleagues. It was the inability of the presidency to accept that it could not dictate to the House who would be speaker that eventually “radicalized” Tambuwal and the PDP ultimately paid the price. Buhari cannot afford to make the same mistake with Saraki and Dogara who now head a separate but very important institution in any democracy. I am aware that the President has hosted the Speaker to a private audience in recent days. He should extend the same courtesy to the Senate President.</div>
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For sure, Saraki has fences to mend, beginning with the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. In the aftermath of the National Assembly elections, I have read several “political obituaries” of Tinubu by those who do not know what they are talking about. Fortunately, Saraki knows, or at least should know, that he cannot afford to take Tinubu on. It would be politically suicidal. The point here is that Saraki cannot be effective as a Senate President if he has to be constantly watching his back. Somehow, he must reconcile with Tinubu, once he settles with the president.</div>
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The situation in the House is a bit tricky but also fortuitous, in a way. Even if by default, that a Christian from Bauchi State would become the number four citizen is a plus for our democracy and Buhari should be happy for such a thing to happen under his watch. Besides, only few people come to the office as prepared as Dogara given his background and temperament so I don’t think the House made a mistake. In any case, there was a proper contest for the position of Speaker even though at the end the result was close.</div>
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Perhaps if the party leaders had not been so overbearing, they could have worked out an arrangement in which whoever between Dogara and Gbajabiamila won would pick the other as deputy. Now with a deputy speaker already elected from the South-west, it is difficult to have a Majority Leader come from the same zone. But I believe that there are several ways in which Gbajabiamila, with his legislative experience, exposure and intellect, can be useful to the House. The APC leadership should find a way to broker compromise between him and Dogara since they cannot force the issue.</div>
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Finally, the election of National Assembly presiding officers is not as important as the APC leaders are making it to be. There are serious challenges ahead and they should get serious. In fact, what the APC leaders are doing today reminds me of a famous refrain of Mrs Oby Ezekwesili whenever she describes people who do not take their responsibility seriously. She says such people major in minors. And at a time like this, the APC leaders should remember what Ezekwesili told them last year.</div>
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At an elaborate national summit in Abuja to launch its Road Map on 6th March last year (at a time the party was just building a coalition against the PDP), Ezekwesili, as the Keynote Speaker told them that seeking to wrest power from a sitting government is more about preparation to make the requisite sacrifice “so that the people may prosper and thrive” than merely dreaming of occupying some fanciful offices. I hope the APC leaders who are behaving as if they are still in opposition would go back and re-read the text of her presentation so they can understand the enormity of the challenges before them and stop messing around with inanity.</div>
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The National Economic Council was inaugurated on Monday with some startling but not surprising revelations about the management of our oil revenues in recent years. Now we hear of probes, which is not a bad idea. After all, according to Robert Coase, "if you torture the data long enough, it will confess". However,the fact also remains that a fixation with oil money (which in any case is dwindling) will get us nowhere as a nation. And the earlier the APC leaders come to terms with that reality, the better for all of us.</div>
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This was the way Ezekwesili explained to them last year in case they have forgotten:  “The trend of Nigeria's population in poverty since 1980 to 2010 for example suggests that the more we earned from oil, the larger the population of poor citizens: 17.1 million in 1980; 34.5million in 1985; 39.2million in 1992; 67.1million in 1996; 68.7million in 2004 and 112.47 million in 2010! This sadly means that you are children of a nation blessed with abundance of ironies. Resource wealth has tragically reduced your nation- my nation- to a mere parable of prodigality. Nothing undignifies nations and their citizens like self-inflicted failure.”</div>
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I have deliberately brought that reminder because it would seem that to some APC leaders, the most important thing in the world right now is how to upstage some principal officers in the National Assembly. Whatis particularly galling about such disposition is the hypocrisy of it all. In the Benue State House of Assembly where PDP has majority of the members, the APC government in the State, by a sleight of hand, ensured the emergence of Hon. Terkimbi Ikyange (APC member) as Speaker with Hon. James Okefe Ejembi (PDP) as his deputy. The same thing happened in Plateau State where the APC (which won the governorship election) has produced the speaker despite the fact that the PDP has more members in the House of Assembly. I have not heard one word from my uncle, Alhaji Lai Mohammed about such “anomaly” and that is why I fail to understand the vicious campaign against Ike Ekweremadu being the deputy senate president.</div>
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Fortunately, there is an opening for the president and the APC leaders to work out an acceptable resolution of the problem they have vicariously created in the National Assembly by their collective tardiness. In a way, the audacity of Saraki and Dogara has helped the president to resolve some inherent geopolitical headaches that were waiting to haunt him. It has thrown up a Christian from the “Core North” as Speaker just as it has produced a Deputy Senate President from the South-east at a time when the APC should be worrying about how not to exclude the zone from the national ring. The challenge for the President is to have the sagacity to 'own' these advantages while using his party to encircle the leadership of the National Assembly.</div>
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If the APC is clever, the enlistment of PDP legislators by Saraki and Dogara to emerge as leaders of the National Assembly can be appropriated as a bi-partisan platform to forge a stronger cohesion on critical national issues. But it is also the responsibility of the president to massage some bruised egos. In the end, the way the hiccup in the National Assembly is resolved will determine whether or not the APC can navigate the disparate interests of political factions that coalesced to form what has now become the ruling party in Nigeria. That may also determine whether or not President Buhari succeeds with his agenda to reposition our country.</div>
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[OPINION]: Of Tambuwalism And Buhari's Headaches - By Segun Adeniyi

It was four days after I came back to Nigeria in June 2011, leaving my family behind in the United States, and a day to the inauguratio...

[JUST IN]: Accept Party Supremacy, Buhari Tells Senators, Reps

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - A serious brawl may be in the offing should some Senators and members of House of Representatives decide not to heed the advice of President Mohammadu Buhari on the party's position on the principal offices in both chambers, the <a href="http://linkis.com/www.vanguardngr.com/YIT7g">Vanguard</a> reports.</b></div>
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Buhari who has not spoken publicly since the election of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the House Speaker, Rep. Yakubu Dogara on the inauguration othe 8th National Assembly has just opened up.</div>
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Making his opening remarks at the ongoing meeting of National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja which has brought who is who in the ruling party, Buhari charged everyone to put whatever interest they have in their "pocket" and accept the supremacy of the party in the overall interest of democracy.</div>
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[JUST IN]: Accept Party Supremacy, Buhari Tells Senators, Reps

ABUJA, NIGERIA - A serious brawl may be in the offing should some Senators and members of House of Representatives decide not to heed t...

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Lawmakers loyal to the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, have, however, formed a shield around the speaker and protect the mace from being taken away.</div>
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Some of the members loyal to Dogara have also been chanting the speaker’s name in support of his leadership.</div>
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The house is currently at a stand still as members are standing at various corners of the lower chamber as proceedings can’t go on.</div>
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The ongoing brawl is happening in the presence of some secondary school students who are on excursion to the National Assembly.</div>
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Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, who contested the seat with the speaker, made his way to the speaker’s seat to confer with him on the situation. Also sighted was the former majority leader of the house, Honourable Leo Ogor.</div>
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Sanity was, however, restored after the rowdy session. Speaker Dogara then reconvened plenary and urged members to count themselves lucky to be chosen to represent their constituency out of 170 million Nigerians. He then adjourned the House till July 21, 2015, while pledging that the crisis will be resolved soon.</div>
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Lasun defeated Hon Mohammed Monguno to emerge Deputy to Dogara. He polled a total of 203 votes as against Monguno's 153 votes.</div>
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Hon Yusuf Sulaimon Lasun representing Osogbo/Olorunda/Orolu/Irepodun of Osun State has been eleced Deputy Speaker of the 8th Assembly. ...

NASS Elections: Atiku Congratulates Saraki, Dogara

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<b>A former Vice President,  Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated the newly elected leaders of the National Assembly, admonishing them to see their elections beyond the narrow interests of respective political parties.</b></div>
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The former Vice President, in a press statement issued by his media office on Tuesday, noted that with the elections of its presiding officers, the 8th National Assembly should swing to work and put the overall national interest beyond the personal political interests of its members.</div>
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The Turaki Adamawa said with the election of its presiding officers, the 8th National Assembly has prepared the ground work for a full legislative business.</div>
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Atiku Abubakar, while congratulating the new leaders of the parliament on their election, reminded every member of both the Senate and the House of Representatives of their responsibilities to their constituents, which, he said, is to put national interest before their individual political interest.</div>
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Irrespective of the political mix through which the presiding officers emerged, he noted, the 8th National Assembly should never lose focus of its role as a partner in progress with the other arms of government, especially the executive arm.</div>
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"The Nigerian people look up to the new National Assembly to work with the executive arm in finding solutions to the problems of insecurity, poverty, illiteracy and joblessness in the country. Their election is indeed a call to duty, and it is a call for which they cannot afford to fail the nation", Atiku added.</div>
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NASS Elections: Atiku Congratulates Saraki, Dogara

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NASS Leadership: PDP Congratulates Saraki, Dogara, Ekweremadu

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<b>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated newly elected Senate President Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu as well as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, noting that their elections underscore the fact that no section of the country should be neglected on national issues.</b></div>
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PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on Tuesday described the development in both chambers of the National Assembly as “victory for democracy and triumph of the time-honored value of the PDP that every zone and segment of the country must at all times be given a sense of belonging in governance”.</div>
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The PDP assured that it would continue to partner with like minds in other political parties and groups to ensure that the nation’s democracy, which it nurtured in the last 16 years is sustained in</div>
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“What is paramount to the PDP is the sustenance of our democracy and the wellbeing of our people, irrespective of creed, class or ethnicity. The PDP is therefore willing and ready to partner with like-minded individuals in other political parties and groups to sustain our democracy, ensure good governance and promote the unity and stability of our dear nation. Nigeria as a nation belongs to all of us. Its interest therefore must be put over and above personal, partisan or group interests at all times.</div>
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“In this regard, the PDP notes with gratitude, the immense contributions of the immediate past Senate President ‘the Baba of the National Assembly’, Senator David Mark for the decency and mature manner with which he ensured the smooth take off of the 8th National Assembly”, the party said.</div>
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The statement also commended the PDP Acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus for successfully galvanizing PDP members in both chambers of the National Assembly, which contributed to the peaceful conduct of the elections.</div>
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The PDP charged its members in the National Assembly to continue to uphold the tenets of democracy and enforce the constitutionally vested parliamentary role of check and balances to ensure the much desired accountability and probity in the polity.</div>
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Finally, it urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop whining and accept the will of the people, respect the independence of the legislature, as the PDP is not responsible for their naivety and crass inexperience.</div>
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NASS Leadership: PDP Congratulates Saraki, Dogara, Ekweremadu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated newly elected Senate President Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu a...

NASS Leadership: Saraki, Dogara Treacherous, Disloyal - APC

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<b>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as totally unacceptable and the "highest level of indiscipline and treachery" the conduct of Tuesday’s inauguration of the National Assembly that led to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Mr. Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively.</b></div>
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This was contained in a statement by APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja on Tuesday.</div>
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APC said: "Senator Bukola and Hon. Dogara are not the candidates of the APC and a majority of its National Assembly members-elect for the positions of Senate President and House Speaker. The party duly met and conducted a straw poll and clear candidates emerged for the posts of Senate President, Deputy Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, supported by a majority of all Senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives.</div>
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"All National Assembly members-elect, who emerged on the platform of the party, are bound by that decision. The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that of its individual members.</div>
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"Consequently, the APC leadership is meeting in a bid to reestablish discipline in the party and to mete out the necessary sanctions to all those involved in what is nothing but a monumental act of indiscipline and betrayal to subject the party to ridicule and create obstacles for the new administration."</div>
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APC decried a situation in which some people, based on nothing but "inordinate ambition and lack of  discipline and loyalty, will enter into an unholy alliance with the very same people whom the party and indeed the entire country worked hard to replace and sell out the hard won victory" of the party.</div>
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"There can be no higher level of treachery, disloyalty and insincerity within any party", the party said, vowing to resolve the matter using all constitutional and legal means available to it.</div>
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Meanwhile, the APC has asked all its loyal Senators-elect to please report to the Senate to be sworn-in in order to discharge their constitutional duties.</div>
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NASS Leadership: Saraki, Dogara Treacherous, Disloyal - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as totally unacceptable and the "highest level of indiscipline and treachery...

Buhari Reacts To Emergence Of New National Assembly Leaders

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<b>President Muhammadu Buhari has noted the outcome of the just-concluded election of leaders of the National Assembly.</b></div>
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A statement issued by the Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina, said the President would rather that the process of the leaders as initiated and concluded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) had been  followed.</div>
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"President Buhari had said in an earlier statement that he did not have any preferred candidate for the Senate and the House of Representatives, and that he was willing to work with whoever the law makers elected," Adesina said. "That sentiment still stands."</div>
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BREAKING: Yakubu Dogara Defeats Femi Gbajabiamila To Win House Speakership

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<b>Hon. Yakubu Dogara has defeated former minority leader, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila , to emerge as the elected speaker to lead the 8th session of the House of Representatives.</b></div>
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Dogara who represents Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa-Balewa Federal constituency of Bauchi State defeated his contender, Gbajabiamila who was believed to have been the anointed candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after scoring   182 votes against Gbajabiamila's  174.</div>
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BREAKING: Yakubu Dogara Defeats Femi Gbajabiamila To Win House Speakership

Hon. Yakubu Dogara has defeated former minority leader, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila , to emerge as the elected speaker to lead the 8th sessio...

House Speakership: APC Reps Elect Gbajabiamila As Candidate

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<b>Information reaching <i>The Nigeria Newsroom </i>has it that the representative of Surulere 1 Federal Constituency, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has emerged the winner of the primaries conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for a consensus candidate for the Speakership of the House of Representatives.</b></div>
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Gbajabiamila emerged on Saturday at the APC primaries conducted at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Abuja after defeating Hon. Yakubu Dogara.</div>
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Dogara and his supporters were said to have staged a walk out from the venue of the primaries.</div>
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The candidates were, however, said to have signed an agreement before the election to abide by its outcome.</div>
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Gbajabiamila was said to have polled 160 votes out of the 182 accredited voters for the election.</div>
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There had been concerns over the ability of the APC to have a unified voice when the election for the leadership of the National Assembly comes up on Tuesday.</div>
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Some have speculated the process will commence at 8pm.</div>
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The fight is expected to be a straight one between Senators Bukola Saraki and Ahmad Lawan.</div>
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House Speakership: APC Reps Elect Gbajabiamila As Candidate

Information reaching The Nigeria Newsroom has it that the representative of Surulere 1 Federal Constituency, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, ha...

Reps Speakership: North-West Behind Gbajabiamila, Says Ganduje

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<b>Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has assured members of the House of Representatives canvassing for Hakeem Femi Gbajabiamila Speakership that not only Kano State but all Northwestern states are one hundred percent in support of his candidature.</b></div>
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The Governor made this known when the team paid him a courtesy visit at Kano Government House on Sunday seeking his support, assuring further that APC leaders in the zone are behind him.</div>
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Ganduje said: "I know the Southwest is solely behind you, the Northwest where the highest number of voters is, is behind you. I am telling you this from the bottom of my heart," stressing that "we need people like you and your colleagues because we are entering into an era with serious challenges and we need a very serious legislator as Speaker of the House in order to cope with the challenges ahead of us."</div>
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Dr. Ganduje told the team that even the Grand Commander of Kwankwasiyya Movement in Nigeria, former Kano State Governor Rabi'u Kwankwaso and his followers are behind the candidature of Gbajabiamila in view of his experience, exposure and leadership potential.</div>
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He lamented that almost all the nation's institutions are collapsed and need surgery, stressing that there is need for experienced legislators to lead the lower chamber and work hand-in-hand with the Executive arm to put things back on the right track of progress.</div>
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In another development, Dr. Ganduje has described the reception organized by Masalaha Development Association in honour of the State Deputy Governor, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, as an honour to the state government.</div>
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Speaking during the reception held at Meena Conference Hall in Kano Municipal Area on Sunday, the governor said that Masalaha association has made a great contribution in transforming not only lives of their people but also their community. He thanked the former Military Governor of Anambra and Sokoto states in the 1990s, Group Captain Rufa'i Garba (rtd) for his foresight in forming the association.</div>
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In a Fecebook post by Ibrahim Dantiye, the DG (Media and Communications to the Governor of Kano State), the Deputy Governor, Prof. Hafiz thanked the organizers and Governor Ganduje for organizing and attending the event respectively, promising that he will serve the people of Kano selflessly.</div>
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Earlier, Col. Garba (rtd) said the reception was organized to honour their son who was elected number two citizen of the state as well as to present awards to him, his principal, Dr. Ganduje and the former state governor, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso.</div>
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Reps Speakership: North-West Behind Gbajabiamila, Says Ganduje

Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has assured members of the House of Representatives canvassing for Hakeem Femi Gbajabia...

House Speakership: Monguno Steps Down For Gbajabiamila

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<b>One of the contestants for the Speakership of the 8th Assembly, Mr. Mohammed Monguno, on Tuesday voluntarily withdrew from the race.</b></div>
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Monguno, who is from Borno State, said he was stepping down to back the candidature of House Minority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, one of the frontline contenders.</div>
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Monguno added that he would instead join Gbajabiamila for the position of Deputy Speaker.</div>
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Part of a statement he issued in Abuja reads: "After broad consultations and thoughtful consideration, I have decided not to run for the office of the Speaker in the 8th Assembly.</div>
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"Instead, I give my full endorsement to my friend and colleague, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who I believe has the requisite qualification to lead the 8th Assembly in the onerous task of addressing the important and pressing needs of the citizens of this nation.</div>
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"I will instead be running for the Deputy Speaker position on a joint ticket with Hon. Gbajabiamila."</div>
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House Speakership: Monguno Steps Down For Gbajabiamila

One of the contestants for the Speakership of the 8th Assembly, Mr. Mohammed Monguno, on Tuesday voluntarily withdrew from the race. ...

Tambuwal Bows Out, Hands Over To Ihedioha

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<b>The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, bowed out on Tuesday, handing over the leadership of the legislature to his Deputy, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, who will round off the tenure of the House on June 5.</b></div>
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Tambuwal, who is the Governor-elect for Sokoto State, will be inaugurated on May 29 (Friday) as governor.</div>
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His decision to transfer power to Ihedioha ahead of May 29 was to avoid a possible constitutional crisis of taking oath of office for two separate offices.</div>
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While he will be inaugurated as governor on May 29, his current tenure as a member of the House will terminate on June 6.</div>
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Tambuwal, who spoke with journalists soon after Tuesday's sitting of the House, disclosed that the members agreed at an executive session that Ihedioha should preside over the affairs of the House till June 6.</div>
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“My stay here in the House would have effectively come to a end on May 29 after I would have been inaugurated as governor.</div>
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“We have to avoid any possible issues on this, since the constitution is silent on what happens when a sitting Speaker has to move to another office,” he added.</div>
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According to him, the 1999 Constitution does not envisage a situation where the Speaker will leave one office for another, while the oath taken for the current one is subsisting.</div>
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However, he noted that under the Standing Orders of the House, a Speaker Pro-tempore was required to be elected by members to run the House for any period the substantive Speaker would not be available.</div>
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But he explained that the extant case was different because he would not return to the House anymore.</div>
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“At our executive session, a member came up with an ingenious way of dealing with the matter on hand, which members accepted.</div>
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“He came up with the idea that the portion of the House rules in question should be suspended to enable the Deputy Speaker to continue to preside over the House instead of electing a new Speaker,” Tambiwal added.</div>
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Tambuwal stated that the other alternative would have been to shut down the House before June 6, but said he was not in support of such a move.</div>
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“I won't shut down the House. The House can sit tomorrow, Thursday and possibly the other sitting days of next week,” he said.</div>
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Tambuwal Bows Out, Hands Over To Ihedioha

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, bowed out on Tuesday, handing over the leadership of the legislature t...

Speakership: 230 Reps Endorse Gbajabiamila/Monguno Ticket

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<b>A member-elect from Bauchi State, Dr. Mohammed Sani Abdu, has said over 230 members-elect for the 8th House of Representatives are supporting the candidature of Femi Gbajabiamila and Mohammed Tahir Monguno as Speaker and Deputy Speaker.</b></div>
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Dr. Abdu, who spoke with reporters in Abuja yesterday, said in terms of qualification and acceptance, "only Gbajabiamila and Monguno fit the bill to be the Speaker and Deputy Speaker".</div>
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His words: “I know that Femi is a very big veteran in the House. Everybody knows him and how thorough he has worked consciously for the opposition with all his knowledge, power and everything. I’m sure over 230 people of 360 members have endorsed Femi for the speakership, and we're still counting.</div>
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“Majority of the PDP members, who are pledging behind the line, are waiting for their house to be in order. If not, they will all come into our camp.”</div>
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On why Monguno should be considered for either the position of Speaker or deputy, Abdu said Monguno first came into the House in 1992, and hence possessed experience, knowledge and stability.</div>
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According to him, in the Northeast, the Gbajabiamila/Monguno ticket has support from 40 of the 48 members-elect, adding: "In Bauchi alone, we have 10 of the 12 members".</div>
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Speakership: 230 Reps Endorse Gbajabiamila/Monguno Ticket

A member-elect from Bauchi State, Dr. Mohammed Sani Abdu, has said over 230 members-elect for the 8th House of Representatives are supp...

Emir Sanusi, El-Rufai, Others Begged Tinubu To Support Me - Gbajabiamila

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<b>The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, denied on Wednesday that he was the candidate of National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for the speakership of the 8th Assembly.</b></div>
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Gbajabiamila, who is one of the leading contestants for the number four job, spoke in Abuja as he met with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members-elect in continuation of his campaign for the position.</div>
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Other contenders include Chairman, Committee on House Services, Mr. Yakubu Dogara; Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Mr. Mohammed Monguno; Chairman, Committee on Finance, Mr. Abdulmumini Jibrin; and Mr. Pally Iriase.</div>
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However, the race has lately narrowed down to Gbajabiamila and Dogara, seen as the front runners.</div>
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Speaking specifically on being Tinubu's candidate, the Lagos lawmaker said he was often surprised when he heard or read about such insinuation.</div>
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He stated that, having led the opposition for eight years in the House, he wondered how people came about the idea that he did not have the capacity to lead the House unless he relied on Tinubu to make a case for him.</div>
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However, he admitted that prominent Nigerians, including the Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, had pleaded with Tinubu to support him, but that he did not give them any answer until a few weeks back when the APC leader said "maybe this man (Gbajabiamila) has some appeal".</div>
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He spoke more: "I have led the opposition for the past eight years with the best of my ability. I have faced a lot of threats and intimidation to life right from the time of (Olusegun) Obasanjo up to about two weeks ago.</div>
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"The way I stick my neck for the opposition, I seek to do same for Nigeria as Speaker. I want this campaign to be about issues and hoped it would be that way, but I heard a lot of many negative stories. I tried to maintain dignified silence, but I want to set the record straight now.</div>
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"I intend to be Speaker not for anbody. Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has no hand in it. Lamido Sanusi left his palace in Kano and pleaded with him to support me. He didn't get a clear answer.</div>
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"Shortly after that, Senator Lawan Shuaibu went to Tinubu on the same issue. He still did not respond until when few weeks ago, Nasiru El-Rufai went to meet him, then he said maybe this man has some appeal.</div>
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"In 2011, some members from the North went to him to suggest that I should be Tambuwal's deputy, but he said no to that".</div>
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Gbajabiamila also spoke on how some lawmakers were demanding to be chairmen of particular committees as a condition for supporting him.</div>
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He alleged that such members were among the people going about town saying that he was Tinubu's candidate.</div>
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He assured the PDP members that allocation of committees would be based on fairness, justice and quality.</div>
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The House Deputy Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, who led the delegation, said the PDP members would go back and study his campaign promises to see how the caucus would key in into his agenda.</div>
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