As the race for Speakership of the House of Representatives intensifies, a distinguished group of the ruling social gathering below the aegis of the Progressives Foundational Movement has thrown its weight behind the micro-zoning of the place to widespread Kaduna lawmaker, Tajudeen Abass, within the tenth National Assembly.

The group additionally pleaded with the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the management of the All Progressives Congress to not bow to strain and refined risk to take away Abbas from the listing of anointed candidates.

The enchantment was contained in an announcement issued in Abuja on Sunday by PFM National Coordinator, Aganaba Johnson.

The PUNCH had reported how the ruling APC zoned the seat of Speaker to Abass, whereas South East lawmaker, Benjamin Kalu, was pencilled because the Deputy Speaker slot.

But following backlash from different aspirants and their allies, the ruling social gathering performed down its choice saying the picks had been ‘not cast in stone.’

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, who was featured on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Tuesday disclosed that the nominations of former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godwill Akpabio, and Abbas Tajudeen can nonetheless be modified as each social gathering member is free to contest elective positions.

 Reacting to the social gathering’s try to overview the listing, Johnson revealed in his assertion that Abbas, other than his tutorial excellence and a confirmed observe document of management in public service, was a member of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, one of many political events that merged to type the APC.

He stated “It will amount to injustice against the defunct CPC members in the APC if other defunct parties like Action Congress of Nigeria that produced the President-elect, the defunct All Nigerians Peoples Party produced Vice President-elect and the New Peoples Democratic Party is allowed to Produce the Senate President. Then Hon. Tajudeen Abbas should be given the opportunity to represent the defunct CPC as Speaker House of Representatives.”

Continuing, the lawyer famous that Abbas’s productive and enviable document of sponsoring 20 of his 78 assented Bills within the ninth Assembly singled him out as one of the best amongst all of the contenders for the Speaker seat.

He recommended Tinubu and Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led NWC to withstand all types of strain and blackmail by permitting supremacy of the social gathering’s choice to face.

“We appealed to all aggrieved aspirants to not rock the boat however work for the success of the social gathering and the bigger curiosity of the nation.

“There is not any have to gang up in opposition to the anointed candidates and the social gathering as a result of the opposition is ready within the wings to use your variations. Please, don’t throw the social gathering into disarray due to management positions.

“Ahmed Wase is the Deputy Speaker at the moment courtesy of the social gathering’s benevolence ditto Alhassan Ado Doguwa as chief of the House and Muktar Betara who chairs the Committee of Appropriation. The social gathering gave all of you the platform on which you contested for elections, so that is payback time.

“We have a vested curiosity within the success of the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration ranging from May 29 this 12 months and this will solely be achieved if the continued cordial relationship between the Executive and Legislative arms is sustained. 

“Never again should we return to the era of acrimonious relationship between the executive and legislative arms experienced during the tenure of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan and even during the first tenure of our outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari between 2015 -2019.”