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The leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is currently holding an election to select who will be nominated as the party’s candidate for the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The election is holding at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
Femi Gbajabiamila is expected to pick the ticket after his main rival, Dogara Yakubu, stormed out of the venue with his ers alleging irregularities.
TIMES gathered that the Consolidation Group, comprising loyal to Mr. Dogara would also carry out a parallel primary at a different venue.
We cannot confirm if the rival election is taking place presently.
However, the spokesperson of the APC, Lai Mohammed, informed us that the party is just trying to be democratic by allowing the select their speaker on their own.
“Out of 218 , 160 are already here and minority cannot hold majority to ransom,” he said.
On why Mr. Dogara and his group left, Mr. Mohammed said the argument of the group was that they were not given notice of election.
The party is expected to carry out the same nomination for the Senate. It is not clear yet whether that vote will hold Saturday.
Details later.

http://www.timesng.com/news/top-news/184446-breaking-apc-conducts-mock-election-to-pick-candidate-for-house-of-reps-speakership.html

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How United State Speaker is Selected

The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on
the first day of every new Congress and in the event of the death
or resignation of an incumbent Speaker. The Clerk of the House
of Representatives requests nominations: there are normally two,
one from each major party (each party having previously met to
decide on its nominee). The Clerk then calls the roll of the
Representatives-elect, each Representative-elect indicating the
surname of the candidate he or she is ing.
Representatives-elect are not restricted to voting for one of the
nominated candidates and may vote for any person, even for
someone who is not a member (or member-elect) of the House at
all. They may also abstain by voting "present". [3]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

Note that it is stated that the political parties made the decision of
who to contest ahead of time. And each party only present one
person.

APC is doing the right thing

TIMES gathered that the Consolidation Group, comprising loyal to Mr. Dogara would also carry out a parallel primary at a different venue.

Let me chill and watch the war from the sideline.

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How I wish they won't loose their head and allow personal sentiment to over rule common sense and party principles....



These people are just playing into the hands of the opposition with what is happening

dre11:
How I wish they won't loose their head and allow personal sentiment to over rule common sense and party principles....



These people are just playing into the hands of the opposition with what is happening

How United State Speaker is Selected


The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on
the first day of every new Congress and in the event of the death
or resignation of an incumbent Speaker. The Clerk of the House
of Representatives requests nominations: there are normally two,
one from each major party (each party having previously met to
decide on its nominee). The Clerk then calls the roll of the
Representatives-elect, each Representative-elect indicating the
surname of the candidate he or she is ing.
Representatives-elect are not restricted to voting for one of the
nominated candidates and may vote for any person, even for
someone who is not a member (or member-elect) of the House at
all. They may also abstain by voting "present". [3]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives


Note that it is stated that the political parties made the decision of
who to contest ahead of time. And each party only present one
person.


APC is doing the right thing

The party shouls b supreme Dats all

Dogara Yakubu, stormed out of the venue with his ers alleging irregularities.

They're even rigging their own internal election, I laff in Kafanchan.

I am very sure that APC will last longer than we feel

Post UME ni

APC the civilized party

Hope it ends well. Not easy reconciling entrenched political interests. May the best man win - I like that Gbajabiamila guy, though.

Gbajabiamila is the man

Even in APC their personal interest still supersedes the interest of the country.

can somebody tell me why APC is better than PDP?
After arranging with Tinubu and Gbaji so that they can force their ideal on nigeria

Nice party. Civil...

Pre-degree exam

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This is a victory for SW and the whole democratic stand that the party stand for when zoning it for SW

I see the hand of tinubu in it

Apc is so desperate not to loose d seats to Pdp,they want to impose a candidate by themselves but it won't work,allow d Senators and Reps elect their President and Speaker by themselves!

Yes they should be Democratic


APC All the way

Cool

apc change ! , no more 16 is greater than 19

Nija my country with or without power problem must come.

hy

Pls Oga APCs we don't want any STORMING out on this istration.

G7 is still a nightmare for PDP. We don't want to read stories that touch like you OLD MEN coming up with another brand of R7 sorry G7. Pls Oga APCs we don't want any STORMING out on this istration.

na dem sabi

good