Plot To Remove House Leadership Is Real...Ndume

    
Adesuwa Tsan 


Following denials by some members of the House of Representatives that there are on-going attempts to unseat the leadership of the House, leader of the opposition parties in the House, Hon Mohammed Ali Ndume, has confirmed that indeed there are such plans in progress.

Speaking to LEADERSHIP yesterday in the National Assembly, the leader also revealed that members of his caucus have even been meeting with him to enquire about how they should swing in the crisis.

He said: "It is true that there is something like this in the House and it is usual but my only disappointment is that we are being derailed by issues like this that are personal to us instead of concentrating on national issues that can affect and improve the lives of our people.

"Some of the members of my caucus have approached me to ask where to go in terms of pro-Jonathan as a group now or pro-Yar'Adua group and that is how the House is truly divided, and in fact, the way the country is divided. We are the stabilising factor in the House because you can only have a PDP speaker, so it is only a PDP man that will have interest to unseat the speaker so that they will have the opportunity to be there but they cannot do that without the opposition. My members are asking where do we go and I say go to wherever you feel like."

Ndume noted that the distraction in the House of Representatives through threats of impeachments and other issues such as the Yar'Adua/Goodluck Jonathan issue are devices of members of the PDP aimed at removing attention from important matters.

"I think the PDP government has succeeded in taking away Nigeria's attention to trivialities instead of issues. Since they abandoned the seven-point agenda nobody is talking about it anymore, what we are talking about now is Jonathan's agenda and even that is not clear or spelt out. Nobody is talking about the megawatts they are generating anymore, the electoral reforms, where have we gone to? Nobody is talking about state creation, the suffering of the masses or anything aside personalised issues and Nigerians are buying into that. It is very sad.”

Ndume added, "it is still a PDP government, and we in the opposition in the House have remained solid in terms of our approach to issues. If we feel that the speaker is found wanting and there is a need to go to that level, we will do that but for now, it hasn't gotten to that"..