Rep. Gbajabiamila pledges loyalty to Speaker Dogara

The Former House of Representatives Minority Leader,
Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday promised to work
with the new Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, to deliver on
campaign promises.
Gbajabiamila said this while addressing newsmen in
Abuja after an emergency meeting by the National
Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress
(APC).
It would be recalled that Gbajabiamila won the straw poll
the APC organised to present a unified candidate for the
speakership position but was defeated by Dogara who
insisted on a contest.

According to him, the loyalty will remain strong as long as
party programmes are pursued to ignite the needed
change.
“We will work with the leadership of the house and with
the speaker for as long as the party’s programmes are
properly articulated and pursued on the floor of the house.
“He is an APC member but not the speaker of the APC but
of the House of Representatives of the country. So we will
work with him and support him,’’ he said.
According to him, the party is going to remain strong and
united so that we can deliver the deliverables and the
programme of the party through the house.’’
On whether the party would sanction some of the
lawmakers that defied its instruction in both the senate
and the house, he said: “all I know is that in every
association there must be discipline’’.
“Whatever the party decides to do that’s for the party; it’s
not for me to speak about it,’’ he said.
In another interview, Rep Mohammed Monguno, who won
the straw poll organised by the party for Deputy Speaker,
said the situation in the lower chamber was a reality the
party must rise to face.
“As it is now, that is the reality on the ground and we have
to deal with it.
“As loyal party members, we will not take any step that is
going to affect the interest, peace, order and good
governance of this country.
“The emergence of the leadership of the National
Assembly is a reality on ground as far as the Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is concerned,’’ he said.
Monguno said the party had summoned them and urged
them to continue to support the government so that the
people would enjoy dividends of democracy.
He said: “They summoned us to support the government
so that the lofty aims and objectives for which the
Nigerian people supported the APC to form government is
achieved to the fullest”.