{"id":104396,"date":"2023-04-22T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104396"},"modified":"2023-04-22T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T14:36:05","slug":"house-minority-members-elect-move-to-produce-10th-assembly-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/house-minority-members-elect-move-to-produce-10th-assembly-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"House Minority Members-Elect Move\u00a0to Produce 10th Assembly Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Banking on its numerical superiority in the soon to be inaugurated 10th House of Representatives, the emergent Minority Caucus has resolved to gun for the Speakership position.<\/p>\n<p>This is following the outcome of last Saturday\u2019s supplementary elections which saw the membership of the Minority Caucus numbering to 182, one vote more than the statutory benchmark (181 votes) required to elect a Speaker \u2014 with prospects of gaining more members.<\/p>\n<p>Already, there are permutations to promote a Speakership candidate from the South-south geo-political zone, and a Deputy Speaker from the North-west.<\/p>\n<p>Rising from an emergency meeting of the Minority Caucus leadership held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, last night, the caucus which now refers to itself as \u201cGreater Majority\u201d and made up of seven political parties, stated emphatically that it was primed to contest the positions of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 10th National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with journalists on the position of the Caucus, a Member-elect from Anambra, Hon. Afam Ogene, stated that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria imbues every elected member with the statutory right to gun for any leadership position, subject to the standing orders of the House.<\/p>\n<p>Ogene said: \u201cBesides the issue of ranking, every member is entitled to run for the office of Speaker, regardless of political party affiliation. The All Progressives Congress, APC, or indeed, any political party for that matter, reserves the right to regale itself with talks about micro-zoning leadership positions in the National Assembly. But the overriding question remains, are such fanciful engagements binding on the generality of Members-elect? The answer today, tomorrow \u2014 and until our current constitution is altered to reflect that desire \u2014 is a big No.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIssues surrounding this all-important question is easily resolved, in the case of the House of Representatives, by Section 50(1)(b), to wit:\u201d There shall be a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves. While zoning is permitted, as an intra-party solution to the sharing of political offices, seeking to enforce such on the generality of members would be tantamount to affronting Section 50 of the Nigerian constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides, political parties must not always use the National Assembly as guinea pigs for their zoning fancies. Why didn\u2019t these governors summon the same courage, which they currently seek to flaunt, during the presidential primaries, by micro-zoning the presidency to a particular zone? If it was okay to say that the presidential ticket should go to the South, then I think they ought to follow through with that same template, and propose, for instance, that the Speakership should go to the North.\u201d<\/p><\/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>Banking on its numerical superiority in the soon to be inaugurated 10th House of Representatives, the emergent Minority Caucus has resolved to gun for the Speakership position. 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