There was anxiety yesterday as President Buhari had a dinner meeting with APC lawmakers-elect; the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole; and NWC officials at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting was still on at press time. Speculations are rife among members, especially various aspirants to the office of the Speaker of the 9th House that there would be a categorical statement by the power brokers in APC on who their preferred choices for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker would be.
In the race for the speakership are Mr Femi Gbajabiamila (Lagos), Mohammadu Bago (Niger), Idris Wase (Plateau), John Dyegh (Benue), Nkiru Onyejiocha (Abia), Chike Okafor (Imo), Abdulrazaq Namdas, and Yusuf Yakub (Adamawa) among others.
Speculations within the House are that the meeting was summoned apparently to endorse the Lagos lawmaker. But Bago is making a case for the North-Central geo-political zone which he said has been marginalized since the return of democracy in 1999.
A statement by his campaign organisation on Monday warned against ceding the speakership to a zone that is already represented in the power allocation of the present government.
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