There are strong signs that the National Assembly’s traditional procedures may be changed to allow Bola Tinubu, the incoming president, and Abdullahi Adamu, the APC’s national chairman, to observe the voting for the 10th Assembly.
According to information obtained by news organizations, the Clerk of the National Assembly may make a few modest adjustments to the normal procedures of the legislature to permit their attendance.
The source, who is reportedly familiar with how the National Assembly operates, claims that they have received convincing evidence that the clerk of the assembly has been instructed to make some changes so that Tinubu and Adamu can be physically present during voting for major positions in the 10th assembly.
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The source disclosed that “We have received strong evidence regarding information that the Clerk may have been directed to pave the way for the newly sworn-in president as well as the national leadership of the APC to be physically present on the inauguration day.
“The thinking is that maybe their presence can intimidate lawmakers as they make last-minute moves to elect their leaders. For those of us who have been there two or three times, we are just watching how this strange style will succeed.
“All we have known before now has been the practice where only lawmakers are allowed into the hallowed chamber. Even our guests are asked to exit and go to the gallery. So we don’t know why this is being planned but it will shock them.
“Even in their party, they are facing stiff opposition in their plans to impose Abass, let alone those of us in the greater minority. What they are banking on is the enormous powers vested in the Clerk to conduct the proceedings on that day.
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“We gathered that shortly after the dismal outing at the Transcorp Hilton on Wednesday night where they wanted to use an expected majority to endorse Abass, they have not slept and that’s the reason for this game plan.”
You may recall that the APC National Working Committee (NWC) assigned the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the North-West and the Senate presidency to the South-South.
While the party designated Kaduna lawmaker Tajudeen Abbas to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Ben Kalu from the South-East as his deputy, it named Senator Godswill Akpabio as its consensus candidate for the Senate presidency and named Senator Jibrin Barau as his running mate.
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