NEC: Reps Minority, PDP Caucuses Disown Agitating Opposition Lawmakers

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The minority and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucuses in the House of Representatives have disowned Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere and his coalition of opposition lawmakers, saying the body is unknown to the parliament.

This was contained in a statement issued and co-signed by all the minority caucus leaders, Kingsley Chinda, (caucus leader), Ali Madaki, (deputy leader), Ali Isah (minority whip) and George Ozodinobi, (deputy minority whip).

The opposition lawmakers said this in reaction to a press conference addressed by Hon Ikenga Ugochinyere and five others as well as 54 members under the aegis of Coalition of Opposition Lawmakers.

The Opposition Lawmakers Coalition had at a press conference on Monday threatened to dump PDP if its leadership fails to nullify what they called a doctored list of caretaker committees in Rivers and 10 other states filled with members and loyalists of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The group named, Opposition Lawmakers Coalition, also asked the…



Source: Leadership Newspaper