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Senators renew bid to upstage PDP govs

Published by Daily Trust on Fri, 09 Mar 2012


Senators and members of the House of Representatives in the People's Democratic Party have renewed their struggle for more slots in the party's national executive committee, in a move that could whittle the overbearing influence of governors on the PDP.The lawmakers are angling for at least one senator and one House member per state to be on the PDP's NEC, Senate leader Victor Ndoma-Egba told journalists in Abuja yesterday.'We believe that every state should have at least one senator and one member of the House of Representatives in the national executive council of the party,' Ndoma-Egba said after a meeting of the Senate PDP caucus.But he added that this was not intended to be a contest between the lawmakers and the governors.If they succeed in getting the slots, the legislators will constitute the largest bloc in the de facto highest decision-making organ of the party.With additional 74 of them in the PDP national executive'2 from each of the 36 states and FCT'the legislators will outnumber the 24 governors and their loyalists made up largely of state party executives.Already, all National Assembly principal officers in the PDP are members of the party's NEC.In the run up to the 2011 general elections, the lawmakers attempted to change the electoral law to make all of them in the PDP to be automatic NEC members. But this came under stiff opposition by the governors, who prevailed and the changes were dropped.At the PDP NEC meeting last week, draft amendments to the PDP constitution were tabled but opposed by governors because they contain proposals for bringing in 74 more lawmakers into the executive committee.Discussions are now going on in a committee headed by President Jonathan, with six governors and some lawmakers as members.Senate leader Victor Ndoma-Egba yesterday said the lawmakers are still pressing on with their efforts to have higher representation in PDP NEC.'We believe that every state should have at least one senator and one member of the House of Representatives in the National Executive Council of the party,' he told journalists shortly after a meeting of the Senate PDP caucus.'This is to enable us effect an amendment to the PDP's constitution. Because any amendment to the party's constitution remains a proposal until that amendment is ratified at the national convention.'The matter came up in the last national executive committee meeting, but it could not be resolved at that level. The president set up a smaller committee, and discussions are still on going.'We are hoping that we meet again on March 14 when we would have reached an understanding among ourselves and the deadlock will be removed.'So, all of these discussions are to enable us effect amendment to increase the representation of the National Assembly in the national executive council of the party.'But Ndoma-Egba said there was no rift between members of the National Assembly and the governors over this matter.'We do not see ourselves as National Assembly against the governors. We see ourselves as members of the same party,' he said.'We want to ensure that every stakeholder, every section of the party, is well represented. It is not a contest between the National Assembly members and the governors.'I have been in this Senate since 2003. When I came to the Senate in 2003, there was no governor in the Senate. By 2007, you have a number of them, by 2011; their population in the Senate had increased.'The Senate is beginning to look like a destination for past governors and if that is so it means that there is very little difference between us and them. The eventual destination, apparently is the Senate.
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