All is not yet well between the leadership of the
Peoples Democratic Party and members of the party elected into the
House of Representatives over which zone of the country should produce
the next Speaker of the House.
A meeting between the lawmakers-elect and the party leaders, which started at 9pm on Tuesday and ended at 12:30am on Wednesday, was deadlocked.
The PDP had, after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, last month, zoned all the political offices at the National Assembly and the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
While it zoned the office of the Senate President to the North-Central, it also asked the South-West to produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives while the South-East was allotted the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
It was on the basis of this arrangement that the President announced the appointment of the former Senate President, Chief Pius Anyim, as the new SGF.
Anyim was inaugurated on Monday.
The PDP leadership had called for a meeting of the elected members of the House last week. The meeting, which was supposed to have been held at Rockview Hotel, Abuja was also boycotted by the rebellious group.
At the rescheduled meeting called by the Acting National Chairman of the party, Dr. Haliru Bello on Tuesday, the Reps-elect were said to have remained defiant, insisting that the party would not be allowed to impose its decisions on them.
At the meeting, which was held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Mohammed failed in his bid to convince majority of the returning and outgoing members of the House of Representatives on the need to follow the party’s path in their decision.
Mohammed, according to sources at the meeting, told his members that it would be unfair for them to disregard decisions reached by the National Working Committee of the party with the President in attendance.
He was specifically said to have begged them that they should not disgrace him as their chairman since such a thing had never happened since the party was formed 13 years ago.
A source, who attended the meeting said, “He (Mohammed) told us that as the acting national chairman, it was his duties to ensure that the decision of the party was carried out and obeyed by all.”
By Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja Courtesy Of: Punch
A meeting between the lawmakers-elect and the party leaders, which started at 9pm on Tuesday and ended at 12:30am on Wednesday, was deadlocked.
The PDP had, after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, last month, zoned all the political offices at the National Assembly and the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
While it zoned the office of the Senate President to the North-Central, it also asked the South-West to produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives while the South-East was allotted the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
It was on the basis of this arrangement that the President announced the appointment of the former Senate President, Chief Pius Anyim, as the new SGF.
Anyim was inaugurated on Monday.
The PDP leadership had called for a meeting of the elected members of the House last week. The meeting, which was supposed to have been held at Rockview Hotel, Abuja was also boycotted by the rebellious group.
At the rescheduled meeting called by the Acting National Chairman of the party, Dr. Haliru Bello on Tuesday, the Reps-elect were said to have remained defiant, insisting that the party would not be allowed to impose its decisions on them.
At the meeting, which was held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Mohammed failed in his bid to convince majority of the returning and outgoing members of the House of Representatives on the need to follow the party’s path in their decision.
Mohammed, according to sources at the meeting, told his members that it would be unfair for them to disregard decisions reached by the National Working Committee of the party with the President in attendance.
He was specifically said to have begged them that they should not disgrace him as their chairman since such a thing had never happened since the party was formed 13 years ago.
A source, who attended the meeting said, “He (Mohammed) told us that as the acting national chairman, it was his duties to ensure that the decision of the party was carried out and obeyed by all.”
By Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja Courtesy Of: Punch
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