A prominent PDP legislator, Solomon Akpulonu, has asserted his party remains the dominant party in the House, by virtue of its elected members, even though the election of new principal officers in the Abia State House of Assembly may have kicked up a little of dust.
To kick against the announcement of new main officers on Friday, where PDP did not receive any position despite having 11 members in the Assembly, was Obingwa East Assembly Representative Akpulonu.
No members of the PDP were included on the list of new principle officials that Speaker Emmanuel Emeruwa read out in plenary last Friday.

The Speaker went on to say that the agreement between the three parties facilitated the easy emergence of the main officers, as two YPP members and one APC member had aligned with the LP prior to the emergence of the principal officer.
The PDP member for Obi Ngwa East, Akpulonu, rejected the results again on Tuesday, insisting that his party still had 11 seats in the legislature.
He claimed that the state’s executive branch was behind the current impasse in the Abia Assembly and insisted that his party would never tolerate being in the minority.
The announcement of principal officers is not required by any rule or legislation of the House of Assembly. It was a formality, but the Speaker had to come and name a majority leader.
Because we are not a small group, we cannot advocate for minority views.
He then condemned the agreement between the LP, YPP, and APC on the House floor, saying that in order for it to be valid, the parliamentarians who supported the LP would have had to resign from their respective political parties.
According to information acquired by DAILY POST, the following people held the following posts in the 8th Abia State House of Assembly:
The positions of Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Chief Whip, and Deputy Chief Whip are all held by the Liberal Party.
The House did not reveal the Minority’s position before breaking until the next session.
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