Muktar Betara, one of the aspirants for the position of
speakership of the House of Representatives, has described the consensus
candidate picked by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Tajudeen Abbas,
as an unknown person.
He stated that the decision of the incumbent speaker, Femi
Gbajabiamila to pick Abbas ahead of other popular aspirants is a big surprise
to him.
Betara said this on Monday while officially declaring
interest in the speakership race. The declaration was attended by six other
aspirants that have vowed to work together to reject Abbas.
It would be recalled that the National Working Committee of
the APC had resolved to endorse Abbas for Speaker, and Ben Kalu for Deputy
Speaker.
However, five of the aspirants, Deputy Speaker Idris Wase,
Sada Soli, Ado Doguwa, Ahmed Jaji and Betara have formed an alliance to defeat
Abbas.
“I was surprised that my friend and my boss (Gbajabiamila)
nominated one person outside of all of us here. If today, the Deputy Speaker is
contesting, the chairman appropriation is contesting, the Majority Leader is
contesting, then who is closer to the Speaker? So nobody. He is picking
somebody that members of the 9th Assembly don’t know. A lot of us don’t know
him,” Betara said.
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