Group backs Lawan, Gbajabiamila for NASS leaderships
Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki
A pro -Buhari group, Initiative for Demonstrating Change in Nigeria has called on House of Representatives-members elect to support the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to elect Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as Senate president and House speaker respectively.
Speaking to newsmen in Abakaliki, National Coordinator of the group, Comrade Chinedu Ogah stated that the contributions of Sen. Lawan as the Senate majority leader for the unity of the country projected him as a core APC loyalist and man of the people.
Ogah, who delivered his Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi state with the highest votes in the South East to President Buhari called on all APC members to imbibe party discipline to sustain the Adams Oshiomhole’s legacies in the party.
He maintained that the choices of Lawan and Gbajabiamila are “square pegs in square holes” for the legislative fortunes of the country.
The group urged APC members -elect in the two chambers of the National Assembly to display total loyalty to the supremacy of the party, by avoiding a repeat of the scenario of that played out in the 8th assembly.
Ogah also called on members -elect of other political parties to put the interest of the country above party politics and forge a common front that would promote cohesion and unity in the National Assembly.
He said: “Ahmed Lawan has displayed maturity as the true leader that will unite the National Assembly. He is a lover, intelligent, humble and believer in one Nigeria. We should elect him as the Senate president because he has displayed love that he does not put party interest above national interest.
“We are also supporting Femi Gbajabiamila for the speakership of the House of Representatives because despite his loss of the position in the outgoing assembly, he was never antagonistic of the leadership of the green chamber. He displayed love and loyalty in the service of this country.
“The two candidates are God-fearing leaders who believe in the unity of Nigeria. We, the Initiative of Demonstrating Change in Nigeria strongly support the position of the national leadership of the APC on the choices already adopted to avoid the aberration which led to the crises in the outgoing assembly.”
The group further congratulated the President Buhari, adding that the President would consolidate on his war against corruption and correct the shortcomings of his first term.
