{"id":104276,"date":"2023-04-16T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104276"},"modified":"2023-04-16T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T16:53:18","slug":"pdp-reps-elect-kick-as-wikes-men-align-with-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-reps-elect-kick-as-wikes-men-align-with-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Reps-elect kick as Wike\u2019s men align with APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1763345550018834591\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The race for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly, especially in the House of Representatives, has split the minority caucus in the federal parliament, with the Peoples Democratic Party vowing not to allow its members to rebel against it.<\/p>\n<p>Another major political alliance emerged in the House of Representatives last Thursday, about two weeks after members-elect on the platform of minority parties formed a coalition against the ruling All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The development divided the PDP caucus in the House, according to findings by one of our correspondents last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the PDP, which is the majority among the minority parties with elected members for the 10th House of Representatives, are now at daggers drawn over the alliance between members of the opposition party and the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Members-elect on the opposition side, some of whom were ranking PDP lawmakers, had met in Abuja, where they considered using their numbers as a bargaining power in their negotiations with the members seeking to be Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>The members-elect unanimously adopted the slogan, \u201810th Assembly: Greater Majority,\u2019 at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>However, the APC-PDP alliance led by the member representing Akko Federal Constituency, Usman Kumo; and his Obio\/Akpor Federal Constituency counterpart, Kingsley Chinda, which emerged on Thursday, adopted \u2018Joint Task \u2013 10th Assembly\u2019.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly, especially in the House of Representatives, has split the minority caucus in the federal parliament, with the Peoples Democratic Party&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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