A former lawmaker, Dr. Wunmi
Bewaji, yesterday, said the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, should be
allowed to have its way in deciding the leadership of the 9th National
Assembly.
Dr. Bewaji, who was the leader of
the Alliance for Democracy (AD) caucus in the 5th National Assembly and
represented Lagos Mainland Federal Constituency, said international party
convention should not be jettisoned in choosing the leaders of the next
National Assembly.
The APC favours Senator Ahmed
Lawan as the next senate president, but there are discordant tunes within the
party over the choice.
Speaking, however, with Daily
Trust against the backdrop of the ongoing controversy over the leadership of
the National Assembly, Bewaji said leadership of the National Assembly could
not be “outsourced” from the opposition as obtained in the current federal
legislature.
The ex-lawmaker, who is also the
Executive Secretary of Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER),
said; “I think the party should be allowed; the tradition has always been to
allow the party determine the leadership structure of the National Assembly,
and the reason is simple. The party ran on particular policies and programmes
sold to the electorate.
“Now the party knows its own
members. You are not going to outsource that to members of another party
because the leadership of the National Assembly is meant to complement and
synergise with the elected president.
“In established democracies, that
is the reason for example in the US, unless something personal is found against
the nominee of the president, the nominee would be allowed to go by the senate.”
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