There are reports that minority caucuses comprising the PDP, Labour in the House of Representatives have made plans to produce the next Speaker of the House.
According to Premium Times, the minority groups have agreed to come together and present a unified front ahead of the inauguration of the 10th session of the House in June.
The report stated that lawmakers met on Tuesday at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja. Lawmakers from six minorities parties were in attendance.
Several new and returning lawmakers, attended the meeting which started at about 10 p.m.
The parties are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Social Democratic Party (SDP) Youth Progressive Party (YPP), and New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP).
The moderator of the meeting, Dachung Bagos (PDP, Plateau), informed the lawmakers that the combined strength of the opposition is more than the ruling party. He noted that there is a need for unity to achieve a collective interest.
He noted that the alliance can produce “an impossible upset” if all the lawmakers are committed to the alliance.
The ruling All Progressives Congress has so far won 162 seats out of the 325 seats declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Meanwhile, the combined strength of the opposition is 163 seats with the PDP having 102 seats. LP and NNPP have 34 and 18 seats respectively, APGA four seats, ADC and SDP two each while YPP has one seat.
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