The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief
John Odigie-Oyegun has written a letter to the Senate President, Bukola
Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, telling them
that the party has approved its principal officers for the 8th National
Assembly.
“Please find below for your necessary action names of
principal officers approved by the party, after excessive consultations
for the 8th Senate as follows:
Senator Ahmed Lawan (Majority
Leader)–North-East; Prof. Sola Adeyeye (Chief Whip)–South-West; Sen.
George Akume (Deputy Majority Leader)—North-Central; and Sen. Abu
Ibrahim(Deputy Chief Whip)—North-West,” the letter to Saraki from Oyegun
read.
To Dogara he wrote: “Please find below for your necessary
action names of principal officers approved by the party after extensive
consultations for the eighth House of Representatives as follows: Hon.
Femi Gbajabiamila (House Leader) South-West; Hon. Alhassan Ado
Doguwa(Deputy House Leader)—North-West; Hon. M. T. Monguno(Chief
Whip)—North-East; and Hon. Pally Iriase (Deputy Chief Whip)—South-South.
This comes with the assurances of my highest regards.”
Whether the duo of Saraki and Dogara will honour the letter from the
Oyegun is yet to be ascertained, as they both flaunted party orders to
contest for the leadership of the Senate and House of Reps respectively.
It
would be recalled that the APC held a mock election where Lawan and
Gbajabiamila both emerged as the party’s candidate in the Senate and
House of Reps but instead of them contesting unopposed on the party’s
platform, they were challenged by Saraki and Dogara, who emerged
winners.
Reacting to the appointment of principal officers in the
national assembly, Senator Abu Ibrahim (APC-Katsina South), said the
senators had no power to zone the leadership positions to any region.
“As
far as I am concerned, this was never done, I was a principal officer
in the last senate, the party gave our names and that’s how I became a
principal officer,” he said.
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