PDP has vowed not to play fair, if APC holds Majority Leader election

The fair thing would be for the Peoples Democratic Party to not interfere with the Majority Leader election of the All Progressives Congress.

That would be the fair thing, but politics is far from fair and it appears PDP is out to take more blood from a badly wounded APC.

The former ruling party’s caucus at the House of Representatives, has threatened to participate in the election of the Majority Leader of the House and other principal officers of the All Progressives Congress.

PDP insists that if APC fails to settle its crisis borne out of the sharing of principal offices in the House,- it would get involved.

The immediate past Deputy Majority Leader, Leo Ogor, is the bearer of this threat.

He revealed to Punch that all party caucuses would participate in the election, stressing that the leader had responsibilities beyond “just being a member of the majority party”.

Ogor said: “If they say they are going for election, all of us will participate. We are talking about the election of the House leader, not the election of the leader of a political party.

“Since the leader is not just for the APC but for the whole House, there is no way they can conduct the election on the floor of the House without our participation.”

Ogor also used the constitution of the House to defend his stance.

Rule 27(1) of the Standing Orders of the House says that the leader should be nominated from among the members of the majority party but all party caucuses would have to vote for such a leader to emerge in the case of an election, he argued.

 

One comment

  1. This guy is really senseless! A minority party taking part in the election of leaders for a majority party! This is the most idiotic news I have read for ages and you can be sure it waffles out from Naija and PDP! Gosh!

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