Some elected members of the House of Representatives for the 10th National Assembly (NASS) from various political party platforms have stated that they will run for Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
The elected lawmakers resolved to propose a consensus candidate to challenge the ruling APC’s candidates.
This decision was made on Saturday after a meeting at the Transcorp hotel in Abuja with certain speakership hopefuls in attendance, including Aliyu Betara, Yusuf Gagdi, Mariam Onuoha, and others.
This action appears to be a blatant violation of the zoning plan stated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee.
The party organ zoned the Senate President to the South-South, Senator Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Deputy Senate President to the North-West, Senator Barau Jibrin (Kano) and this continues to spark controversy ahead of the inauguration of the 10th NASS in June.
Others are the Speaker of the House of Representatives (North-West) – Abass Tajudeen (Kaduna), and Deputy Speaker South East – Ben Kalu (Abia).