Minority Members-Elect Move To Produce 10th House Speaker
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Members-elect under opposition parties are gearing up for the Speakership of the 10th House of Representatives ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly in June.
This followed the outcome of last Saturday’s supplementary elections which saw the membership of the minority caucus rising to 182, which is one vote more than the statutory benchmark (181 votes) required to elect a Speaker — with prospects of gaining more members.
Already, there are permutations to promote a Speakership candidate from the South-South geo-political zone, and a Deputy Speaker from the North West, Daily Trust Saturday reports.
Rising from an emergency meeting of the Minority caucus leadership held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, the caucus which now refers to itself as “Greater Majority,” and made up of seven political parties, stated that it was primed to contest the positions of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 10th National Assembly.
Speaking with journalists on the position of the caucus, a member-elect from Anambra, Victor Afam Ogene, said the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria imbues every elected member with the statutory right to go for any leadership position, subject to the standing orders of the House.
