{"id":437195,"date":"2011-06-07T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/s-west-loses-in-new-political-setting\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T04:48:10","slug":"s-west-loses-in-new-political-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/s-west-loses-in-new-political-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"S-West loses in new political setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"85\">\n<p>BY LEKE ADESERI, South West Regional Editor<\/p>\n<p>The South West region yesterday lost out in the nation\u2019s first four political ranking for the first time in the last 12 years as Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, PDP, Sokoto State emerged as the new Speaker of the 7th Session of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the region\u2019s Ogun State was Nigeria\u2019s number one citizen between 1999 and 2007 while from that time to last Friday, members of the House of Representatives from the region\u2014Hon. Patricia Etteh, then Dimeji Bankole, at different times held sway as Speakers of the House.<\/p>\n<p>By the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP\u2019s arrangement, the position of the number four citizen\u2014 Speaker of the House of Representatives\u2014 would have gone to the region but Hon Tambuwal defeated Hon. Mulikat Akande-Adeola who was popularly tagged as the candidate of the PDP and the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal was a Deputy Chief Whip in the sixth session of the House of Representatives.\u00a0 He ran against Hon. Mulikat Akande in defiance to the endorsement of the ruling PDP.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, the President is from South-South; Vice President from, North-West; Senate President, North Central and Speaker, House of Representatives from North West<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, the main political party that is governing five of the South West\u2019s six states, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, says it\u2019s not worried about the development.<\/p>\n<p>According to the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, \u201cwe are not bothered since we are a national party with national and not ethnic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe voted for a candidate that will advance our political agenda which includes devolution of power, Physical federalism and review of revenue sharing formula among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not vote on ethnic grounds and this is the beginning of the re-birth of democracy.\u201d<br \/>\u201cCome to think of it, what did the South West gain from Obasanjo Presidency and a Dimeji Bankole Speakership in the last 12 years?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/06\/s-west-loses-in-new-political-setting\/\" title=\"S-West loses in new political setting\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S-West loses in new political setting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BY LEKE ADESERI, South West Regional Editor The South West region yesterday lost out in the nation\u2019s first four political ranking for the first time in the last 12 years as Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, PDP, Sokoto State emerged as the new Speaker of the 7th Session of the House of Representatives. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the region\u2019s Ogun State was Nigeria\u2019s number one citizen between 1999 and 2007 while from that time to last Friday, members of the House of Representatives from the region\u2014Hon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":419835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>S-West loses in new political setting - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/s-west-loses-in-new-political-setting\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"S-West loses in new political setting - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"BY LEKE ADESERI, South West Regional Editor The South West region yesterday lost out in the nation\u2019s first four political ranking for the first time in the last 12 years as Hon. 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