{"id":440305,"date":"2011-06-03T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/03\/intrigues-behind-adeola-akande%e2%80%99s-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T23:00:00","slug":"intrigues-behind-adeola-akandes-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/intrigues-behind-adeola-akandes-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Intrigues Behind Adeola-Akande\u2019s Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Written by Taiwo Adisa, Leon Usigbe and Lanre Adewole Abuja<\/span> Saturday, 04 June 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It emerged on Friday that many members of the in-coming House of Representatives\u00a0 are opposed to the ambition of the two choices from the South-West, Honourables Mulikat Adeola-Akande and\u00a0\u00a0 Muraina Ajibola\u00a0 as a result of\u00a0 the duo\u2019s failure to directly reach out to the members.<\/p>\n

Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Haliru Bello, had on Thursday announced Hon. Adeola-Akande as choice for Speakership.<\/p>\n

This is also coming as President Goodluck Jonathan and governors on the party\u2019s platform moved to stop Honourable Aminu Tambunwal, another candidate from North West.<\/p>\n

The party had zoned the position to South-West.<\/p>\n

Some re-elected members and new members alike who confided in the Saturday Tribune said that unlike the situation in the Senate, where the candidate of the North-Central, Senator David Mark, has been in touch with all senators and sought the support of each of them, the contestants in the House of Representatives are largely relying on the party to do the job for them.<\/p>\n

Some lawmakers said that while Hon.\u00a0 Tambunwal, who is from the North-West, a zone that is regarded as unqualified\u00a0 to contest the Speaker\u2019s seat has reached out personally to all returning and new members as well as their godfathers, the South-West candidates are simply relying on small caucuses and the machinery of the PDP to do the job for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can imagine that Tambunwal, who is regarded as\u00a0 not qualified to contest the seat by way of zoning has toured round the geo-political zones, he has set up a campaign committee among members, the South-West candidates are simply relying on the PDP to do the job for them,\u201d a source said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it was learnt on Friday that gender sensitivity was a major issue that won the seat for Hon.\u00a0 Adeola-Akande.<\/p>\n

A presidency source said that the leaders of the party felt that women participated actively in the process of the last general election and they also voted massively and that the best way to appreciate them is to ensure that one of their own occupies the headship of one of the arms of government.<\/p>\n

President\u00a0 Goodluck Jonathan and governors of\u00a0 PDP – controlled states have\u00a0 waded into the struggle for the Speakership position of the House of Representatives, insisting that it would go to the South-West which has just three members from the party.<\/p>\n

Saturday Tribune findings indicated that Jonathan rallied the governors\u2019 support for the party\u2019s\u00a0 position within the last few days, following the recalcitrant posture of some candidates who wanted the post in spite of the party\u2019s position.<\/p>\n

One of the opposition groups referred to\u00a0 as \u201canti-zoning group\u201d headed by\u00a0 the\u00a0 outgoing Deputy Whip of the House,\u00a0 Hon.\u00a0 Tambunwal\u00a0 had\u00a0\u00a0 insisted\u00a0 on North-West\u00a0 producing the Speaker, contrary to the position of the PDP\u00a0 to have a\u00a0 speaker from the South-West.<\/p>\n

Sources revealed that the latest intervention of the president and governors\u00a0 caused the collapse of the\u00a0 anti-zoning group with members which it had managed to garner in the last few weeks crossing over to the party\u2019s team\u00a0 in droves, thereby paving\u00a0 way for a candidate from the South-West to be selected.<\/p>\n

The intervention followed a minor re-tinkering of the zoning arrangement in the House which has seen the position of the House Leader zoned\u00a0 to the North-West from the South-South where a two-time Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Honourable Friday Itulah, was favoured to clinch the post.<\/p>\n

It was gathered that the slight changes in the position in the House was as a result of the changes in the Senate which led to the selection of Senator Ndoma Egba from Cross River State (South South) as the Senate Leader, a position occupied by Senator Teslim Folarin from Oyo State.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, members of the House of Representatives who are against the open-secret ballot for the purpose of electing the new leadership for the 7th House of Representatives on Monday lost in their bid to judicially reverse the recently amended Standing Order of the House over the election mode.<\/p>\n

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday threw out their ex-parte application seeking the suspension of the amendment.<\/p>\n

Justice Gabriel Kolawole while rejecting the ex-parte application described it as self-induced.<\/p>\n

With the failure to get the amended Order II, Rule 3 (f) (i) and (ii) of the Standing Orders of the House suspended, the open-secret ballot would now be used for electing the new officers of the Lower Chamber.<\/p>\n

Two pro-zoning law makers, \u2013 Hon. Jerry Manwe and Bitrus Kaze, had filed an ex-parte application to stop the use of the voting pattern on Monday.<\/p>\n

Joined as defendants in the suit are; the House, the Speaker, Clerk to the National Assembly, Clerk to the House and the Deputy Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n

Justice Kolawole directed the plaintiffs to put them on notice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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