There is no indication that the bickering for elite positions in the House of Representatives is about to end as the group loyal to Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila appears not to be placated by recent concessions made by the Speaker Hon. Yakubu Dogara.
The Gbajabiamila group sees the moves by the speaker as superficial and a tactic to subjugate them and render them inconsequential.
The group in a letter to the National Chairman of the party, chief John Odigie-Oyegun, dismissed the proposal made by Dogara to their party, proposing various posts to appease the members who felt they are being sub-changed especially the group that is loyal to Hon. Gbajabiamila as unacceptable.
According to the group, to accept the Speaker’s arrangement would mean that the two most powerful positions in the Senate and House would be occupied by the North.
“We are not in doubt that all the shenanigans is merely a pretext to exclude our principal Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, a man acknowledged to have served the House, party and country meritoriously, who was the face of opposition in the National Assembly and who led our party from minority to majority in the House,” it said.
It laid out various arguments to counter the issues raised by the Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, in a similar letter to the party leadership.
They group insisted that the principle of federal character as enshrined in the country’s constitution must be adhered to strictly for peace to reign.
