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Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by dre11(m): 6:25am On May 07, 2019
By Ahmed Musa



Abuja – A plan to shock the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and produce a speaker from the opposition in the coming 9th National Assembly appears to have been uncovered.

There are also indications that the incumbent speaker, Yakubu Dogara, who is of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may still be interested in retaining his speakership seat whilst keeping his game plan closed to his chest.

Sources told Daily Independent in confidence that efforts were on to sell a dummy to the APC’s anointed candidate, Femi Gbajabiamila, with a view to making him believe that opposition lawmakers were not interested in the leadership positions of the incoming House of Representatives and were willing to support his ambition in order play a comprehensive opposition.

According to one of Daily Independent sources, “If you can observe, Dogara, who is supposed to be working with some aggrieved APC lawmakers to defeat Gbajabiamila, has refused to take a definite position on who he is backing.

“APC members in his camp who are insisting on the North Central producing the next speaker have canvassed the support of the camp for ‘Project Fairness and Equity’ which someone like Umar Bago has espoused.

“Despite the withdrawal of Hon. Idris Wase from Plateau to become deputy to Gbajabiamila, Dogara has refused to give the green light to the only viable option from the zone, which is Bago.

“Apart from him, the next viable person is Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas from Adamawa who’s even ready to sacrifice his ambition for Bago.

“Many members in the camp, including PDP lawmakers, expect the speaker to call for a meeting where a particular person would be picked as Gbajabiamila’s challenger so that we can start the real work of poaching votes, but such didn’t happen.”

“I chose to respond to your questions because of a piece you wrote about ‘Dogara’s Indecision And The Choice Before His Men’”, he said, quoting a Daily Independent publication of April 28 on the speakership tussle.

Recall that PDP had in March disclosed that it would nominate its members for every available leadership position in the National Assembly, bearing in mind their constitutional rights to vie for them.

As a result, the party is said to have perfected a plan to have its members nominate incumbent Speaker Dogara as a surprise move to undo APC and its members on the day of election.

According to another source, “The party is ready to take its chances with Dogara as candidate, provided Gbajabiamila has another challenger from the APC, which will make the APC have a divided house and votes. And it will automatically give the opposition the upper hand and advantage of winning with a simple majority using PDP block votes.”

Asked if the recent endorsement of Gbajabiamila by newly elected members, many of whom are PDP lawmakers, doesn’t mean anything, the source disclosed that “it is part of the plan to make the APC and its preferred candidate lose their guards”.

He continued: “If things remain as they are with Bago or Namdas insisting on running and get nominated on the floor, then Dogara will join and some of the so-called opposition members endorsing Gbaja now will be the ones to nominate him (Dogara). It’s going to be a shocker to the ruling party and even APC Reps who’re still with him.

“And they will feel disappointed and betrayed because the expectation is that he should rally opposition members behind one of them to undo Gbajabiamila, because if there’s anything the current speaker dreads right now, it is Gbajabiamila as speaker”, the source added.

“The only thing that would save APC and Gbajabiamila is that a challenger from the party withdraws his nomination before voting would commence. Only with that can Gbajabiamila easily emerge without much skirmishes against an opposition candidate”, the source noted.

Currently, the PDP has a total of 122 members while the APC has 224, and other parties have 14. This, however, is dependent on the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling on Zamfara APC pre-election case which could reduce the party’s number by 6, bringing it to 218, if it loses.

As at the time of filing in this report, attempts by our correspondent to get reaction from Dogara’s office proved abortive, as calls and text messages to his Media Adviser, Turaki Hassan, were not replied to.

https://www.independent.ng/dogara-plans-to-shock-apc-femi-gbajabiamila/
Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by helinues: 6:29am On May 07, 2019
Like Shock absorber? undecided

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by NgeneUkwenu(f): 6:33am On May 07, 2019
Useless Daily Independent Newspapers... Propaganda media outlet for the Useless PDP.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by Chikpat(m): 6:37am On May 07, 2019
Dogara?
Who bi Dogara??
2015 and 2019 are not identical at all. Somebode should be careful lest he hurts himself.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by celeiyke: 6:38am On May 07, 2019
NgeneUkwenu:
Useless Daily Independent Newspapers... Propaganda media outlet for the Useless PDP.


Madam go and read ur nation newspaper to calm ursef with APC propaganda paper

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by babyfaceafrica: 6:39am On May 07, 2019
electric shock...daily Independent and lies...nansense

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by ablelin: 6:46am On May 07, 2019
Who cares. Is there anything they are doing pro Bono publico (for the good of the public). Does everything not still boil down to their own interest. Infact, they should scheme themselves out of the house, it doesn't benefit the common man. They have been running the house for years, how does that improve the country....

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by aolawale025: 6:46am On May 07, 2019
Not surprising. Dogara is quite popular

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by Lanretoye(m): 6:52am On May 07, 2019
if they like they should continue to heat up the polity,dogara should try rubbish and his political career wrecks like titanic in four years.he should ask Saraki.
odomanis:



Is that what democracy means to you ? SMH
what do you know about democracy,what you read in textbooks?

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by BuhariAdvocate: 6:53am On May 07, 2019
There's no aggrieved APC Lawmakers.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by Hector09(m): 6:56am On May 07, 2019
All this accusation and counter accousation
Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by Dannyset(m): 6:57am On May 07, 2019
If Gbaja is putting his hope on PDP support then I must say it will take him forever to learn political lesson. Forget what is happening publicly, the evil party PDP that has always been a clog in the wheel of the progress of this country will never vote you.

APC should put their house in order. They have the numbers already.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by davibid: 7:08am On May 07, 2019
Y
Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by fredoooooo: 7:09am On May 07, 2019
This time around we are going to deal with anybody ruthlessly, bring it on ... the worst you all will do is to cry and wail ...#Next level
Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by kaen1317: 7:09am On May 07, 2019
Okay
Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by SweetLife247: 7:10am On May 07, 2019
Dogara sprang surprise before, he can do it again. Let the person that would favour the masses win.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by kaen1317: 7:10am On May 07, 2019
Shock them with transformer
Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by ORACLE1975(m): 7:11am On May 07, 2019
Good one

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by MadeInTokyo: 7:12am On May 07, 2019
grin
Gbajamila don dey fear

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by Flyingngel(m): 7:16am On May 07, 2019
I pity Dogara because the investigative arm of APC - EFCC may have compile a truck load of charges against him; they are just waiting for the right time to strike.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by Herdsmen: 7:18am On May 07, 2019
Zombies speaking with authority like the imp oshomole..


Las las dia eyes go clear....

Dem no dey use mouth run politics.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by PHILipu1(m): 7:18am On May 07, 2019
SweetLife247:
Dogara sprang surprise before, he can do it again. Let the person that would favour the masses win.
That was when Buhari was saying I belong to all and belong to none.
That was when John Oyegun was APC chairman and not Oshiomole.

2019 is a different ball game from 2015.

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by jimi4us: 7:28am On May 07, 2019
NgeneUkwenu:
Useless Daily Independent Newspapers... Propaganda media outlet for the Useless PDP.
e pain you sha

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by AkataYeriYeri: 7:35am On May 07, 2019
Lmao.
Continue deceiving pigs and idiots
Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by Chukwurah003: 7:35am On May 07, 2019
He will only shock himself into political retirement

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by CalabarPikin: 7:37am On May 07, 2019
Together we stand

divided we fall

APC always fail to understand d later

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by odomanis: 7:38am On May 07, 2019
Lanretoye:
if they like they should continue to heat up the polity,dogara should try rubbish and his political career wrecks like titanic in four years.he should ask Saraki.


Is that what democracy means to you ? SMH

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Re: Dogara Plans To Shock APC, Femi Gbajabiamila by oforjide: 7:49am On May 07, 2019
Dagora will teach this inexperience and weak boy femi a lesson he never forget in his entire life.

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