The Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the House of Representatives, on Sunday, warned its All Progressives Congress colleagues to either get their acts together or they would be forced to participate in the election of the Majority Leader of the House and other principal officers.
The APC, which is in the majority, has been torn by crisis over the sharing of principal offices in the Green Chamber with both factions of the party insisting on going head-to-head over the selection of House leader.
To this end, the PDP caucus hinted that should the final decision be that an election be conducted to decide the majority leader, all party caucuses would participate in the election.
The immediate past Deputy Majority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, speaking with journalists in Abuja, said that the responsibilities of the House leader went beyond “just being a member of the majority party” to standing for all caucuses of the House.
“If they say they are going for election, all of us will participate.
“We are talking about the election of the House leader, not the election of the leader of a political party.
“Since the leader is not just for the APC but for the whole House, there is no way they can conduct the election on the floor of the House without our participation”, Ogor added.
The former deputy majority leader admitted that while Rule 27(1) of the Standing Orders of the House states that the leader be nominated from among the members of the majority party, all party caucuses would have to vote for such a leader to emerge in the event of an election.
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