PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUSPENDS ELUMELU, OTHERS

The suspended members were nominated by the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, as Minority Leaders, against the choices sent in by the party, which nominated Chukwuka Onyema as Deputy Minority Leader, Yakubu Barde as Minority Whip and Muraina Ajibola as Deputy Minority Whip.

Penpushing further reports that, the announcement of a different set of lawmakers had caused confusion in the parliament on Wednesday and Thursday, with members breaking into a fight, while the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP)summoned  Elumelu and the other lawmakers on Thursday.

The statement emphasized that, the party’s decision was a resolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) who sat on Friday to review the issue,stressing that, “the Party noted the roles played by the underlisted members which resulted in the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, reading another list for Minority Leadership of the House other than the list submitted to him by our party, the PDP,”.