Tag: 10th Speakership
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10th Speaker: G7 meets “Greater Majority ” , to present consensus candidate+Photos
G7 aspirants for the Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives has met with “Greater Majority “, with a resolved to present a consensus candidate for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker. The G7 aspirants met at a parly with the “Greater Majority ” in Abuja on Saturday at Transcorp Hilton. The G7 reiterated their commitment…
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10th HoR: Jaji joins parade of those gunning for Gbajabiamila’s job
…declares intention Hon Aminu Sani Jaji has officially joined those gunning for Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila’s job as he declared his intention to vie for the position of Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports that Jaji is a member of the G-7, a group of aspirants who feel aggrieved over the choice…
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Speakership Race: consider Nigeria’s interest first, Ooni of Ife tells Abbas, Kalu
…backs APC anointed candidates A foremost Yoruba monarch, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has admonished the front runners in the race for the Speakership and Deputy Speakership positions of the incoming 10th House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Abbas Tajudeen and Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, to always have the interest of…
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SPEAKERSHIP: Party’s supremacy Should not be Jettisoned on alter of political interest – Kalu (Photos)
…as Abia stakeholders stage rally in support of APC’s zoning The Deputy Speakership candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 10th Assembly, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has called on his colleagues, particularly aspirants for the speakership seat of the House to place the supremacy of the party above any other political…
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10th House: Masari, Radda, Aliero throw weight behind Abbas for Speakership+photos
…insist party’s decision is supreme A top aspirant and APC’s choice for the position of Speaker in the incoming 10th House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, has secured the backing of both the outgoing and incoming governors of Katsina State, Hon. Aminu Bello Masari and Dr. Dikko Umar Radda respectively. The endorsements came when…
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Leadership tussle: Heed Akeredolu, stakeholders’ advice on Speakership, Group urges APC
A youth group in the All Progressives Congress, APC, APC Youth Alliance For Progress, APC-YAP, has called on the party and the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to heed the progressive and patriotic advice of some leaders of the party to jettison the present zoning arrangement. The APC-YAP in a statement on Sunday in Abuja…
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Speakership: Why Tajudeen Abass must be rejected now, True Democrats tell members-elect
The coalition of True Democrats at the weekend rose from an emergency meeting opposing the ongoing moves to impose Dr Tajudeen Abass as Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives. National Coordinator of the group, Dr Mustapha Yusuf in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja argued that the move is antithetical to the…
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Speakership: Abbas, Kalu meet, get Tinubu, Obasanjo’s blessings to run
Speakership and Deputy Speakership hopefuls in the coming 10th House of Representatives,Hon Tajudeen Abbas and Benjamin Okezie Kalu on Tuesday met and got the blessings of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former President Olusegun Obasanjo respectively. Recall that Abbas, who represents Zaria Federal Constituency of Kaduna State and Kalu, from Bende Federal Constituency…
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House Rules: It is impossible for Gbajabiamila to have interfered with my work – Prof Ihonvbere
… insists Process was transparent, in line with House Rules Professor Julius Ihonvbere, Chairman, House Committee on Basic Education and Services and former Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the Standing Order of the House of Representatives has said that the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila did not in any way interfere with the…
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SPEAKERSHIP: North Central APC stakeholders, demand speaker’s position, say ‘awa lokan’
…declares that party is deliberately excluding zone … endorse outgoing DS, Wase … insists NW delivered more votes because they have more states A group under the aegis of North Central APC Stakeholders, on Sunday declared that it is the turn of their geo-political zone to produce the next speaker of the House of Representatives…