NASS leadership: Buhari mum as Oshiomhole presents Gbajabiamila as APC choice of House Speaker

President Muhammadu Buhari was reportedly silent when National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presented Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila to him as the choice of the party for the Speakership of the House of Representatives.

The President, however, reportedly  urged members of the APC not to break ranks in the choice of the leadership of the ninth National Assembly.

The president made the call at a dinner for APC members of House of Representatives-elect at the State House Conference Center, on Tuesday evening.

Also, the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, at the event presented Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, current the House Leader for Speakership position of the House of Representatives for the leadership of the 9th National Assembly.

Hon. Abdulmumini Jibrin confirmed to newsmen that Gbajabiamila was presented to President Buhari.

But a source at the meeting said President Buhari declined to make comment on Gbajabiamila.

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According to the source, Hon. Ahmed Wase (APC, Plateau) stood up after the presentation of Gbajabiamila to express surprise that after meeting the President to step down from the position of the Speaker and take over as deputy speaker, his name was not mentioned at the dinner for the position.

Special Adviser to the President for Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, told State House Correspondents that President Buhari called for unity among party members.

According to Adesina, “90-95 percent of them are in unison, seem to agree on the position of the party unanimity ran through the meeting.

“We cannot speak for five percent. The President urged them to maintain the unity referring to what transpired in 2015. If there is disunity in their ranks, then anything can happen.

He urged them to maintain the unity and stand by the position of the party.”