Members of the House of
Representatives have elected Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker, House of Representatives of the 9th assembly.
The choice candidate of the
leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 281 votes to defeat
Mohammed Bago, still of the APC, who had 76 votes, on Tuesday.
Like Senate President Ahmad
Lawan, Gbajabiamila was the preferred candidate of the APC in 2015 but Yakubu
Dogara, who was then of the APC, had teamed up with the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) to defeat him.
Dogara had defeated him with just
eight votes.
While the sorting of votes was
ongoing, Bago walked up to Gbajabiamila to congratulate him and this elicited a
thunderous round of applause among their colleagues.
Gbajabiamila assumed office in
2003, representing Surelere 1 Federal Constituency.
In 2011, he contested for a third
term on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria and won.
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congratulations FEMI!!!
ReplyDeletecongratulations APC!!
Let's begin the journey to the NEXT LEVEL!!!
Allahu