{"id":66304,"date":"2019-04-17T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=66304"},"modified":"2019-04-17T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:46:05","slug":"reps-speaker-northern-youths-kick-against-zoning-to-southwest-canvasses-support-for-n-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/reps-speaker-northern-youths-kick-against-zoning-to-southwest-canvasses-support-for-n-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Speaker: Northern Youths kick against zoning to Southwest, canvasses support for N\/Central"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
The reported zoning of the Speakership position of the House of<\/div>\n
\n
Representatives to the Southwest by the ruling All Progressives
\nCongress (APC) has been described as an insult on the north and an
\naffront on the principle of federal character enshrined in the
\nConstitution of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The Northern Youths Movement (NYM) told the APC National Chairman,
\nAdams Oshiomhole and he party\u2019s National Leader, Bola Tinubu to perish
\ntheir thought of taking over the National Assembly in preparation for
\nhis (Tinubu) presidential ambition in 2023.<\/p>\n

According a release issued in Abuja today, which was signed by the NYM
\nChairman, Mallam Ishaya Jato, the north will resist Oshiomhole and
\nTinubu\u2019s attempt to zone the House of Representatives Speaker to the
\nSouthwest, which already has the Vice President.<\/p>\n

The NYM, which reiterated that it had nothing against Hon. Femi
\nGbajabiamila, dismissed report that President Muhammadu Buhari agreed
\nto the zoning of the Speakership position to the Southwest in the
\ndinner held last night with APC returning and Reps members-elect.<\/p>\n

The group disclosed that President Buhari even had to openly reprimand
\nOshiomhole for discussing what he described as unnecessary details
\nthat were not know to him ad that his understanding was that all zones
\nshould meet and discuss zoning.<\/p>\n

Our question then is; when did Oshiomhole meet with APC National
\nWorking Committee members to arrive at his zoning of the Reps Speaker
\nto the Southwest, a zone that already has the Vice President just as
\nthe Northwest has the President?<\/p>\n

Our understanding of the federal character formula is that with six
\npositions of President, Vice President, Senate President and Deputy as
\nwell as Reps Speaker and Deputy available, the six geopolitical zones
\nmust get one position each.<\/p>\n

Since Northwest and Southwest have already taken President and Vice
\nPresident respectively, the remaining four positions must be shared
\namong the South-South, South East, North Central and North East zones.<\/p>\n

Anything outside this is against the unity of Nigeria and peaceful
\ncoexistence of its people, and we in the Northern Youths Movement will
\nnever support that.<\/p>\n

President Buhari is therefore called upon to be mindful of the
\nscheming of Tinubu through Oshiomhole because this planned handing of
\ntwo major positions to the Southwest, which produced lesser votes than
\nthe North-Central and North-East is an injustice that must not be
\nallowed to happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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