Speaker Dogara Plans To Lock Us Out Of The National Assembly, Gbajabiamila Camp Claims

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.

The latest development sets aside every feeling that the leadership tussle in the House of Representatives had been resolved.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.