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Gbajabiamila, an All Progressives Congress Chieftain from Lagos told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that the party had more than the required number to stop the process.

The resolution was sequel to a motion by Hon. Raphael Igbokwe on the kidnap of four reverend sisters in Delta, at a plenary presided over by Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

“Let the people’s vote decide who will be the party’s candidate in 2019,″ Tinubu said at Ikeja Ward C, where he participated in the ongoing APC gubernatorial primary in Lagos.

The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, made the disclosure to newsmen on Monday after a meeting between the committee and party stakeholders in Lagos.

The APC governorship primary in the state is scheduled for Monday (today).

Senator Anthony Adefuye, a member the council, announced the endorsement to party members on Saturday, at a stakeholders’ meeting at the ACME Road state party secretariat.

Gbajabiamila gave the assurance at the flag off of the Ecological and Gully Erosion Control project in Surulere Federal Constituency in Lagos.

It was widely reported in the media that the Pro-Buhari group had accused Gbajabiamila and Sarki Adar of using the group to champion their own selfish ambitions.

Oshiomhole, who spoke after a meeting he held with senators and members of the House of Representatives in Abuja on Tuesday, said Saraki, who now belongs to the Peoples Democratic Party, cannot lord it over the APC, which he said now has the majority in the Senate

All Progressives Congress, APC, members in House of Representatives have advised their Peoples Democratic Party colleagues to push for reconvening from recess rather than blame President Muhammadu Buhari on issues.

The Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Friday said the exit of some National Assembly members from the All Progressives Congress, APC, would not undermine the strength or the popularity of the ruling party.

Gbajabiamila stated this on Thursday in Abuja when he led the party’s caucus at the House of Representatives to a meeting with the party’s National Working Committee.

Led by the Leader of the House, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the members excused themselves from proceedings to brief the media in reaction to the defection announced at plenary.

Banjo, who fielded questions from newsmen in Lagos, lamented that in 15 years, the member representing Surulere Constituency 01 in the House of Representatives, had never touched the lives of the people of the constituency through meaningful and effective legislation.

In a letter forwarded to the anti-graft agency and signed by HEDA’s Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, the Center said like other concerned members of the society,

The committee queried Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Bawa Bwari, over the delay in the completion of the project, saying it had taken about 40 years for the steel complex to commence production.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the lawmaker presented 30 minibuses, 25 tricycles and 160 motorcycles to over 200 beneficiaries at the programme.

Gbajabiamila gave the advice in Lagos at a Children’s Day party he organised for pupils in his Surulere 1 Federal Constituency 1.

Okonjo-Iweala, in her book: “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines,” accused the National Assembly of insisting on N20 billion bribe to pass the Budget aside their N150 billion annual budget

The APC Caucus in the House, led by the Majority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who presented a letter to the Governor at Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja asking him to re-contest in 2019, said the decision to unanimously endorse Ambode for a second term was as a result of his brilliant performance in office in the last two and half years.