Despite the fact that members of the House of Representative loyal to the APC’s leadership are suing speaker Yakubu Dogara along with his deputy Yusuf Lasun over the allocation of the House’s leadership, its most likely leaders are already calculated according to “Dogara’a zoning formula“.
The Consolidation group in the House of Representatives informed the press that it has adopted Alhassan Ado Doguwa of Kano, north-west, as the House leader, while Buba Jibrin of Kogi, north central is named his deputy. Pally Iriase of Edo, south-south announced as the most likely chief Whip, while Chika Okafor of Imo, south-east, as the deputy chief Whip.
This decision has been achieved according to the zoning principle for the distribution of the key positions in the House, proposed by Yakuba Dogara.
Nevertheless the so-called “Dogara formula” contradicts the directives of the ruling APC party.
In the end of the June the APC issued the nomination letter, where Yakuba Dogara is asked to announce Femi Gbajabiamila, who earlier has lost the postion of the speaker of the House to Dogara, as the House leader; Alhassan Ado Doguwa as Gbajabiamila’s deputy; Mohammed Monguno as the House Whip, while Pally Iriase should be the deputy chief Whip.
The only nominees to satisfy both sides of the conflict in the House are Alhassan Ado Doguwa and Pally Iriase but the sides’ opinions were divided again on who should embrace the leading position and who should be the deputy.
The House of Representatives will resume its work on July 28, 2015 to avoid chaos and let the warring sides of the two APC groups in the House reach the backroom agreement on candidates for the leadership in the House.
Earlier two aggrieved lawmakers of the All Progressive Congress (APC) have asked a federal high court to restrain the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Yakubu Dogara from refusing to accept nominees sent by the party leadership as majority leader and deputy; and majority whip and deputy.
The APC loyalists in the House of Representatives have dragged the speaker of the House and his deputy, Yusuf Lasun to court over the sharing of key leadership positions in the House.
On June 9 Bukola Saraki was elected the Senate president and Yakubu Dogara was voted speaker of the House of Representatives.
The All Progressives Congress, which had Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as preferred candidates, categorically rejected the results in an official post-election statement. The APC defined this election as “unacceptable” and vowed to sanction members who disobeyed its directives.
President Buhari’s reaction was also not long in arriving. Speaking through his media aide Femi Adesina, the president simply said he “noted the outcome of the just-concluded election of leaders of the National Assembly”.
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