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 News  Tuesday, January 28, 2014
From
left: Yakubu Brade, Bitrus Kaze, Tom Zakari, Tobias Okwuru and Jerry
Alagbaoso, members of National Unity Group of House of Representatives
(PDP, Labour and APGA members) addressing newsmen on the call of APC to
boycott budget… at National Assembly, Abuja, yesterday. Photo: Gbemiga
Olamikan. |
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*CNPP disowns scribe on statement
*Fashola backs APC Reps
*Mu'azu meets PDP House caucus today
By Soni Daniel, Kingsley Omonobi, Emma Ovuakporie & Levinus & Nwabughiogu
ABUJA
- The famed unity in the Aminu Tambuwal-led House of Representatives
was unravelling, yesterday, as members began to take position along
party lines on the directive by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to
shut down the government.
The
directive by the opposition party to shut down government bills upon
the alleged reign of impunity in Rivers State, yesterday, led to the
emergence of at least three groups in the House taking divergent
positions on the issue.
The
crisis of confidence among political groups also led the split in the
Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, which also yesterday,
disowned a statement of support for the APC directive issued by its
National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Osita Okechukwu.
CNPP
Chairman and former governor of Old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa,
in a joint statement with the body's national secretary, Mr. Willy
Ezugwu, said the CNPP, as a body encompassing all political parties,
would not side one party against another.
Also
yesterday, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State gave strong
support to the APC directive, saying it was a necessary legislative
action to bring a belligerent executive arm of government to order.
Meanwhile, the new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, |
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