The National Assembly is now struggling to get back to the business of legislation after bruising political party primaries disorganised both its leadership and members, particularly in the Senate. The National Assembly resumed plenary on Tuesday, June 14 after going on recess to enable members to attend their political party congresses and primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the House of Representatives, Speaker, Rt. Hon Femi\nGbajabiamila and his Deputy, Hon. Idris Wase both of the All Progressives\nCongress (APC) easily won the primaries of their parties in their respective\nconstituencies. The Majority and Minority Leaders of the House also won their\nnominations to recontest their seats. The count is however still on, as to how\nmany other members of the House succeeded with renomination to contest in the\n2023 general elections. Indications however, are that a significant number of\nmembers of the House may not have won their nominations, particularly in the\nparties through which they first contested primaries. There are reports that\nseveral members who failed in the primaries of their political parties may have\nswitched parties to be able to be on the ballot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Senate, the two Presiding Officers, Senate\nPresident Ahmad Lawan and Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege are not\nlooking to come back to the Senate at all. Lawan, who contested in the\nPresidential primaries of the ruling APC, failed to win the ticket, losing to\nAsiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State. In the period preceding\nthe contest for President, the senatorial primaries was also going on. An\naspirant, Bashir Machina won the primaries to contest under the APC for the\nYobe North Senatorial District seat, meaning that Lawan could not come back to\nrun in the primaries that had already been concluded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are unconfirmed reports that Senator Lawan is\nseeking to have the APC nominee for his Senatorial District step down, so that\nhe can be the candidate for the election and this is being resisted by the\nnominee. Also, from the Senate, its Deputy President, Ovie Omo-Agege will not\nbe returning as Senator in the 10th<\/sup> Senate as he is the governorship\ncandidate of the APC in Delta State. The Delta State governorship is currently\nheld by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with the elections in 2023 expected\nto be a stiff contest between the APC and the PDP. The Senate is further\nembroiled in confusion with both its Majority and Minority Leaders resigning\nfrom their political parties, the ruling APC and opposition PDP, respectively\nand moving to different contest platforms. The Senate is expected to announce\nreplacements for these positions in the coming week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The outcome of the political parties\u2019 primaries\nalready indicates a shift in leadership and power dynamics in the National\nAssembly, even at the current time, with most legislative business likely to be\ndriven or drifting with the politics. Caught between the elections, campaigns,\nholidays and breaks, dates available for legislative work in the National\nAssembly have now been severely reduced. The current National Assembly is\nexpected to wind down in about 11 months, with a new National Assembly, the 10th<\/sup>\nAssembly expected to be inaugurated in June 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Assembly is now struggling to get back to the business of legislation after bruising political party primaries disorganised both its leadership and members, particularly in the Senate. The National Assembly resumed plenary on Tuesday, June 14 after going on recess to enable members to attend their political party congresses and primaries. In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}