A group of representatives who were elected to the 10th House of Representatives are collaborating effectively to elect an APC candidate as speaker.
Usman Kumo, an APC member from Gombe State, and Kingsley Chinda, a PDP member from Rivers State, said in a statement on Thursday that the alliance is “committed to presenting a united front that will help the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu.”
Chinda, the coalition’s co-chairperson, is a friend of Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State.
Days prior, Governor Wike promised that the PDP in Rivers would back any candidate put forth by the APC leadership for the office of speaker.
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When Idris Wase, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, led a group of MPs to pay Wike a visit at the government residence in Port Harcourt, Wike made this statement.
The Rivers State Governor said, “The truth must be told that we are going to support the leadership of your party at the national level.”
The “joint task – 10th assembly” coalition, according to Chinda and Kumo, is made up of 283 members-elect from the APC, PDP, Labour Party (LP), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), African Democratic Congress (ADC), and Young Progressive Party (YPP).
The goal of the coalition, according to the lawmakers, is to advance justice and fairness among members-elect as presiding and major officials take office.
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According to Chinda and Kumo, the coalition has the support of 14 APC governors, nine PDP governors, and “several” members of the national working committees (NWC) of the government and opposition political parties.
The statement reads, “Already, 283 members-elect comprising both returning and new members have endorsed the coalition (and we now) await the decision of the ruling APC on the zoning of the various offices.
“The forum is independent of the speakership ambition of any of the various aspirants but with determination to build a strong coalition of members-elect of the 10th house in readiness to support the majority party zoning of the speakership office towards building a rancour-free and people-oriented 10th Assembly and in line with best parliamentary practice.”
The coalition said those who may want to defy the APC and have a “repeat of the 2015 rebellion” should remember the consequences of such action on governance “as the sour relationship between the leadership of the 8th national assembly and the executive left Nigeria and Nigerians at the receiving end”.
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“Rebellion will deny the incoming Tinubu administration the opportunity to deliver on its mandate and the high expectations from Nigerians, especially under the current ethnic and religious tension in the country.
“We are glad that the leadership of the ruling party recognises that the opposition political parties in the house are very key in the formation of the next leader of the house, hence this coalition shall continue to consult with all the opposition parties.
“We desire to see a Nigeria where all of us, the political actors, come together to put the country first, subduing our interest, to have a better country that we, our children, and our children’s children will be proud of.”
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