Pictures: Nigeria Representatives Fight over Election of Principal Officers –

Yesterday’s disagreement in the chamber of the House of Representatives again brought to the fore questions about the unity and preparedness of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for governance. 

A fight broke out Thursday in the House of Representatives over disagreement on the election of principal officers.

 

While Nigerians continue to wait with patience as President Muhammadu Buhari comes to grips with the process of governance, not few are amused by the incoherence of the ruling party in getting its majority in the two chambers of the National Assembly to settle down to the process of governance.

Reflective of the disarray in the ruling party, the APC has been unable to come up with its full complement of principal officers in the two chambers of the National Assembly.

It is the longest time since the advent of the Fourth Republic that the National Assembly has not been able to showcase its principal officers. Even when the Senate came up with its Leader in the person of Senator Ali Ndume from Borno and his deputy, Senator Bala Ibn Nallah from Kebbi, it was another humiliation for the national leadership of the ruling party.

The humiliation was in the sense that the party had insisted on proclaiming the leaders for the two chambers, something that has not been done before.

While the chaos was ongoing in the House yesterday, the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki announced Ndume and Nallah as the leaders presented by the Northeast and Northwest caucuses of the party. The APC caucus in the Senate had earlier zoned the office of the Senate Leader and Deputy Leader to the Northeast and Northwest and in voting among the senators from the two zones, the two names emerged.