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  • Speaker race: Doguwa, 5 others step down for Abbas, Kalu

    Speaker race: Doguwa, 5 others step down for Abbas, Kalu

    The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ado Doguwa and five other aspirants have stepped down from the speaker and deputy speakership race.

    The aspirants stopped down at a meeting of members-elect under the auspices of the ‘10th Joint Task’ on Wednesday night in Abuja.

    The speakership aspirants, Rep. Ado Doguwa (APC-Kano) Rep. Abdulraheem Olaoye (APC-Ogun) Rep. Makki Yalleman (APC-Jigawa state) stepped down for Rep. Tajudeen Abbas (APC-Kaduna state)

    Also, the deputy speakership aspirants, Rep. Abiola Makinde (APC-Ondo) Rep. Francis Waive (APC-Delta) and Rep. Julius Ihonberev (APC-Edo) stepped down for Rep. Benjamin Kalu (APC-Abia)

    It could be recalled that the All Progressive Congress (APC) has earlier endorsed Abbas and Kalu for the office of the speaker and deputy respectively.

    The endorsement was further strengthened by the Minority Party Forum, a group of about 70 members-elect who announced their support for the duo.

    Speaking on behalf of the speakership aspirant, Doguwa said that they had come come to join the Abbas/Kalu campaign.

    He said they all wanted to be speaker but they can only one speaker at every given moment saying that they will support the party’s choice.

    “I want to say on behalf of these great men around me here, that we have individually and collectively decided surrender our bid to become speaker this time around.

    “We have resolved to support our great party and the man they have chosen to be speaker Rep. Tajudeen Abbas,” he said.

    Speaking on behalf of the deputy speaker aspirants, Rep. Julius Ihonberev said that there is a time when strategies and tactics needed to be adjusted to support a democratic process that would work.

    He said that all three of them wanted to deputy speaker, believing that it will be zoned in their favour but it turned out differently.

    “As loyal party persons, we decided to align with those that have been identified by the party

    The integrate, capacity and ability to carry people along, transparency and the anergy to mobilise ideas that would change Nigeria for the better.

    “We want to say we are absolutely, undilutedly in support of the ticket as announced by the party that Rep.Tajudeen Abbas will be our next speaker and Rep. Benjamin Kalu will be the next deputy speaker.

    “We want to assure you that we are prepared to do all it takes to ensure the success of this project,” he said.

    However, the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, Chairman Committee on Appropriation, Rep. Muktar Betara, Chairman Committee on Water Resources, Rep. Sada Soli, Rep. Mariam Onouha and Rep. Yusuf Gagdi are still in the race.

  • Why PDP lawmakers are biased about electronic transmission of election results – Reps Majority Leader

    Why PDP lawmakers are biased about electronic transmission of election results – Reps Majority Leader

    The majority leader in the House of Representatives, Honourable Ado Doguwa, on Friday said his colleagues from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are biased about issues surrounding the electronic transmission of electoral results because they do not understand the provisions of the amendment.

    The House was thrown into disarray on Thursday as members debated section 52(2) of the electoral amendment act bill, which deals with electronic transmission.

    On Friday, PDP lawmakers walked out of a session after presiding officer Deputy Speaker Ahmed Wase insisted that section 52(2) had been carried.

    Speaking on a monitored Channels Television programme, Hon. Doguwa, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said the PDP lawmakers were being over-exuberant and desperate.

    He argued that the provisions of the electoral amendment act bill, as passed by the House on Friday, allowed INEC to determine whether it would employ electronic voting or not.

    APC Senators on Thursday had forced through a version of the bill at the Senate that constrained INEC to seek permission from the Nigerian Communications Commission and the National Assembly before employing electronic voting in any part of the country.

    “I don’t know what version the Senate has, but in the House of Representatives where I serve as the leader, our provisions in respect to section 52(2) is that voting at an election under this act shall be in accordance with the procedure determined by the Independent National Electoral Commission,” Hon. Doguwa said.

    “This goes to prove to you that the House of Representatives is working in tandem with the constitution. We said voting at an election and transmission of results under this bill shall be in accordance with the procedure determined by the commission.

    “Whether by electronic, manual, or any other technological device, that is left for INEC to determine.”

    “The so-called walking out of the PDP members was unfounded and unnecessary because the arguments they came out to protect are already contained in the bill.”

    However, Hon. Doguwa said it was not a problem if his party, the APC, was against electronic transmission.

    “What’s wrong with not wanting electronic transmission of results? We have over 49.3 percent of the Nigerian population not covered by network and that would amount to absolute disenfranchisement, so it is a political matter,” he said.

  • Call for Buhari’s Impeachment Fallout: You’ve desecrated House Leader’s position, Hon Teejay Yusuf tells Ado Doguwa

    Call for Buhari’s Impeachment Fallout: You’ve desecrated House Leader’s position, Hon Teejay Yusuf tells Ado Doguwa

    …says you can’t feel the heat of insecurity because you’re carried away by your air-conditioned office
    …you grossly disappointed democracy
    By Emman Ovuakporie
    Peeved by the outbursts of House Majority Leader, Hon Ado Doguwa threatening to punish a fellow lawmaker for calling for the impeachment of President Muhamnadu Buhari, Hon Teejay Yusuf has described his colleague’s action as an act of desecrating democracy.
    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that Doguwa speaking during a plenary on Monday, December 21, House majority leader, Ado Doguwa, distanced the PDP from Chinda’s statement. He submitted that the lawmaker’s call for the impeachment of the president does not reflect the position of other members of the opposition party in the House.
    He still went ahead to declare that the Lawmaker would be punished for daring to call for the impeachment of Buhari over his inability to cage insecurity in Nigeria.
    In a statement simply tagged: ‘Response to Ado Doguwa’ Yusuf said:
    “By dabbling into opposition members’ affair, trying to speak for them and expressing crass sycophancy for the executive arm, House Leader, Hon Ado Garba Doguwa has thoroughly desecrated the high position he currently occupies.
    Yusuf ( PDP, Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu) said “a proper understanding of the duties and responsibilities of a House Leader in terms of policy formulation, party issues and democratic development would have motivated Hon Ado Garba Doguwa to respond to the Minister of Justice’ s view that the House cannot invite the President over grave national issues.
    “People who are supposed to be knowledgeable should be adding value to robust democratic processes and practice.
    “But for someone who has been around the House of Representatives since 1991 to denigrate or belittle such, is very anti-democratic, highly disappointing, prankish and embarrassing to us all,” Yusuf stated.
    Dismissing Hon Doguwa’s threat to mobilise for sanctions against the leader of PDP House Caucus, Hon. Kingsley Chinda over his call for impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari, Hon Yusuf stated that such wishful thinking antagonizes the rising concern of Nigerian citizens.
    “Hon. Doguwa is so carried away by the air-conditioning in his Office that he can neither feel the heat of bandits and terrorists’ daily killings and abductions on innocent citizens in rural and urban parts across the North and southern Nigeria.
    “He grossly disappointed democracy by failing to realise that Hon Chinda only called for the use of an impeachment as a tool for the furtherance of democracy without going outside the rule of law.
    “Very clearly and effectively, Hon Kingsley Chinda speaks for those of us who are members of the House PDP Caucus; it is a gross anomaly for any Doguwa to dabble into our affairs, see himself as a legitimate usurper or impersonator and proclaim to a gullible audience that he does not think that Hon Chinda is speaking for us.
    “Sycophancy from APC figures like Hon Doguwa has thoroughly lulled the executive arm into slumber, generating unprecedented level of youth unemployment and singling out this administration as the only one to record two recessions in the history of Nigeria.
    “Hon Doguwa got it wrong and it is very sad that the high expectations of the high position that he occupies is being brought low with such impunity and wanton disregard for the opposition’s democratic rights to make a call that resonates with millions of deeply concerned citizens of Nigeria,” Yusuf stated.