Pandemonium in House of Reps as Baraje PDP Visits print

Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives returned from their eight weeks vacation on Tuesday and were sucked straight into the crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
There have been speculations that the division within the Nigeria ruling PDP which has led to the creation of a faction of the party may result in a major crisis in the National Assembly where the party has majority of members.
Over 50 members of the House and about 27 Senators have already pledged loyalty to the breakaway faction of the party led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje and supported by seven governors elected on the party’s platform.
The speculation became real when Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, the Speaker informed members at the plenary that the leadership of the New PDP would visit the caucus to address them on activities of the party.
He read out the request of the new PDP convened in a letter addressed to the Speaker signed by the secretary of the party, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola.


“Those of us in the leadership who are members of the PDP have unanimously agreed to crave the indulgence of this group to visit us. We will listen to them and they will go,” Tambuwal who explained that the meeting will take place after the sitting said.
But the faction loyal to the main PDP led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur immediately expressed their disapproval of the visit with the shouts of ‘no, no, no.’