Some members of the House of
Representatives are unhappy over what they consider to be the “lopsided”
distribution of standing committees of the House by the Speaker, Mr.
Yakubu Dogara.
The complaints cut across both the majority All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
This is in spite of the fact that APC
members already feel that Dogara even favoured the opposition party in
an APC-dominated legislature.
Dogara had, on Thursday, named the
chairmen of 96 standing committees of the House, coming after more than
three months of delay and speculation.
The APC, with over 213 members, got 47 of the committees, while the PDP took 46, many in the league of “Grade A committees.”
The North-West has 29 deputy committee chairmanship positions, while the South-East has 10.
North-Central got 15 committee chairmen and 13 deputies.
The South-South was allotted 14 committee seats and another 18 deputies.
The South-West came fifth with 13 committee chairmanship positions but higher than the South-East by having 13 deputies.
The South-West’s number of deputies is lower than that of the South-South with 18 deputies.
However, the least number of committees
went to Dogara’s North-East, which got eight committee chairmen and
another eight deputies. For more read Punch
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