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Canvassers of the speakership aspiration of Rep Tajudeen Abbas aligned to the outgoing incumbent, Femi Gbajabiamila have reportedly launched into a rain of {dollars} on the opposition in the direction of mollifying the antagonism to his emergence.
The greenback rain . gathered was additional stoked by controversies instigated by a key aide of the speaker who was alleged to have used disrespectful phrases on some members-elect and incumbent members of the Home.
There was intense tussle over who emerges as new speaker, even because the management of the ruling occasion together with the President-Elect, Senator Bola Tinubu, lately chosen Hon. Tajudeen Abbass, as there most well-liked candidate.
This growth hasn’t gone down effectively with the opposite aspirants and the opposition events, who had subsequently expressed their disillusionment.
It was gathered {that a} key aide of the outgoing speaker who’s coordinating assist of the outdated and newly elected lawmakers for the APC anointed Abbass, had been reaching out to threaten members to make sure they vote for the anointed candidate or find yourself with out having any “juicy committee” within the incoming meeting.
Talking on situation of anonymity, a lawmaker who belongs to the camp of Deputy Speaker Ahmed Idris Wase, stated a lot of them are deeply upset and a few have proceeded to report the matter to Gbajabiamila.
He stated: “It was fairly dehumanising and belittling to be addressed like that by somebody who has by no means contested elections, even for an area authorities chairman or councillor place.”
The aggrieved member-elect disclosed additional: “He expressly informed us, members and members-elect of the Home of Representatives who went via the rigours of robust elections to get the place we’re right this moment, individuals who campaigned to get votes and went out of our methods to get funds for our election, that we had higher assist Hon. T.J (Abbass) or not count on to chair and even be members of prime committees within the tenth Meeting. It’s the peak of disrespect.”
It was learnt that the event heightened pressure among the many lawmakers who had been already aggrieved over the alleged unlawful modification of the Home guidelines .
It’s reported that in a bid to placate the members, that critics had been being gained over with {dollars} of as much as $10, 000 every to “apologise” over the indiscretion of the aide and to solicit their “assist” for Abbas within the speakership race.
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