Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday, revealed that the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus over the composition of the leadership positions will be resolved soon.
This is coming just as indication emerged that the House has shifted its resumption date from July 21 till July 28. He also stated that principal officers will be named when the House reconvenes.
The House, it will be recalled, had earlier adjourned till July 21, following the fracas in the House over who should occupy the four principal officers’ positions alloted to APC as majority party.
Dogara, who spoke on the leadership crisis when the APC Youth Forum paid him a courtesy call in his office in Abuja, declared that, “everything is being done in conjunction with the party; in conjunction with the leaders, to ensure that by the time we reconvene, all the issues that were there would have been dealt with.”
According to him, “as soon as I leave this meeting, I’m going for another meeting. I hope we should be able to bury our differences so that when we resume, announcement will be made for the remaining four leadership positions in the House of Representatives.”
“We will announce the remaining four principal officers by the time we reconvene on July 21.We pray that this matter has come to an end by the grace of God,” the Speaker told the APC youths.
He said there had been a series of meetings to resolve the crisis in the party and that there were positive signs that the crisis was nearing its end.
However, Dogara did not specify whether the names to be announced on July 21 would be the same as those recommended by the leadership of the APC or he would stick to his position that each of the six geopolitical zones in the country should have one seat.
The Speaker argued that God must have ordained the emergence of certain political leaders, which was being seen as “a mistake”.
“If there were mistakes that were made, we must admit that God allowed these mistakes to make the way for another person’s destiny to happen,” he stated.
On his part, APC Youth Forum leader, Ismaila Ahmed, said they were worried over the continued leadership crisis in the “We have won the election. We must win the country and winning the country means governing well and governing well means stabilising the House,” he said.
The lawmakers went into a forced break on June 24 after fighting broke out on the floor of the House over the sharing of principal offices.