The crisis rocking the House of Representatives is far from being over. The Femi Gbajabiamila Group had rejected the recommendations of the Speaker, Hon Yakubu Dogara that other principal office positions should be distributed according to zoning.
Dogara had last week insisted in a lengthy letter written to the Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun that Gbajabiamila who was tipped as the Majority leader cannot emerge.
Meanwhile, The Gbajabiamila Group, known as APC Loyalists’ Group, wrote Oyegun, rejecting Dogara’s recommendations.
The letter which was dated July 18 stated, “Mr. Chairman, history beckons and posterity will always judge our conduct and contributions to the development of our democracy. A political party is an institution and its supremacy is universal and not a Nigerian coinage.
“It is on record that the Speaker defied the party going into the elections and he is about to repeat such defiance. The party must assert its authority over all its members, the Speaker inclusive, as none of us came to the House as independent candidates and we subscribed expressly and impliedly to the party’s supremacy in political activities.
“Article 9.2 of the APC constitution which we all subscribed to states, ‘Members of the party shall be obligated to affirm the party’s aims and objectives.’ The party’s letter to the Speaker on party positions forms part of the aims and objectives of the party.
Furthermore, the President (Muhammadu Buhari) himself has spoken severally that the party is supreme and its decision must be obeyed.”
