The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, has said that the House will stick to the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the choice of the House Majority Leader.
The PDP had already zoned the post to the South-West.
Tambuwal told journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, that the choice of a House leader was the only vacant leadership position in the House and added that the House would “sincerely look at it and conclude on it when the House resumes on Tuesday.”
The acting national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, had in a recent interview, said the position of the Leader of the House had been zoned to the South- West, thereby foreclosing a return of the position of the Speaker of the House to the South -West, as being championed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Tambuwal pledged that the House would pursue people-oriented agenda when it reconvenes on Tuesday
“We’ll discuss on issues that affect people dispassionately for the common good of Nigeria”, he said.
The speaker denied that he was in Ilorin with some members of the House to formalise choice of committee chairmen due to alleged pressure from other House members in the seat of power, saying that “we are in Ilorin as citizens of Nigeria. Or are we no longer free to go anywhere? What’s the issue about it?”
Meanwhile , a group, the Good Governance Project Initiative (GGPI) has urged Obasanjo to leave Tambuwal alone.
The group described as “ undemocratic, illegal and unconstitutional” the call by Obasanjo for Tambuwal to step down for a South-West candidate, saying, it was aimed at causing confusion, overheating the polity, derailing the legislative agenda, unnecessary interference and distracting the House Leadership.