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House of Reps Leadership May Change Today as APC Vows to Disobey Court Order
 
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Tue, 21 Jan 2014   ||   Nigeria,
 

NIGERIA (Abuja)- If news coming from the National House of Representatives is anything to go by, then, there could be changes in the leadership structure of the House.

It was gathered that members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to go contrary to the order of the court restraining them from effecting leadership changes in the House.

According to sources, after the completion of an emergency meeting late yesterday evening, the lawmakers said they would change the House leadership today, barring any last minute change of decision, upon the plurality attained by the party after the defection of 37 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the APC last December.

It would be recalled that the ruling PDP had on January 7, filed a suit seeking an order to stop APC lawmakers from making any leadership change in the House.

Joined in the suit were the Speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, his deputy, Emeka Ihedioha, House Leader Mulikat Akande-Adeola, her deputy Leo Ogor and Chief Whip, Isiaka Bawa, among other principal officers.

While delivering his judgement, Justice Adeiyi Ademola, yesterday, issued an order restraining the principal officers and other lawmakers from making any leadership change, by maintaining the status quo ante; a decision which did not go down well with the APC Reps.

 

 

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