Contrary to media reports that some National Assembly
members elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have
started identifying and pledging support to All Progressives Congress (APC)
candidates, Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila respectively, the
leading opposition party said its leadership is yet to take decision any
position on the matter.
Soon after the 3019 general elections, the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC), had zoned the positions of Senate President and
Speaker of the House of Representatives to both North-east and South-west
respectively.
Apart from the main opposition party's insistence that it
would not allow the ruling party to foist leadership of the ninth assembly,
aggrieved party members as well as elected lawmakers within the ruling party
are hell-bent on frustrating the zoning arrangement, as part of efforts to
whittle down the influence of the party's national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,
who is believed to be nursing a
presidential ambition in 2023.
However, responding to media enquiry on Sunday over
allegations that some elected members of the party pledging support to Lawan
and Gbajabiamila, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Kola
Ologbondiyan, denied the report, insisting that none of its members has given
support to the APC anointed candidates.
According to him, "The leadership of the party is yet
to take any decision regarding the leadership of the ninth assembly."
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