Plateau Representative Bagos: Opposition Parties Unite to Elect 10Th House Speaker
Peoples Democratic Party (Pdp) Spokesperson and Minority Caucus Representative in the 10Th House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos, Suggested That Opposition...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Spokesperson and Minority Caucus representative in the 10th House of Representatives, Dachung Bagos, suggested that opposition parties are unified in electing a speaker as they hold the majority in the lower chamber of the national assembly.
During an interview on Channels Television, Bagos discussed the nomination of candidates for Senate President and House Speaker by the majority All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, May 9. He emphasized the “sacredness” of the National Assembly as enshrined in Section 50 (1) (a) and (b) of the Constitution. According to Bagos, the law mandates that “there shall be a speaker and a deputy speaker to be elected among members” without accounting for nominations by any party assuming a majority.
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Bagos, representing the greater minority, emphasized the unity of the minority parties, asserting that the “numerical advantage of the minority parties has made them an indivisible bloc.” He revealed that they have conducted their first and second extraordinary sessions in preparation for the inauguration of the 10th House of Representatives in June.
Regarding the election of the speaker and deputy speaker, Bagos stated, “I’m from the opposition, which is the greater majority. I usually don’t understand how some people do their political calculations. When you have a House where the minority parties are 183 against your own party which is 177, you sit down in a room, take tea and just allocate positions. We have the majority; they don’t have the majority. They have the majority as an individual party but we have the majority as minority parties. That’s why we call ourselves the greater majority.”
Furthermore, Bagos asserted that even if they don’t have a nominee for the speakership, the opposition members would still contest for the position of deputy speakership. He declared, “But for the two presiding positions of the House, the opposition — the greater majority — is going for them.”
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