10th NASS: Speakership Hopeful Tajudeen Explains Why North-West Should Get Position.
10th NASS: Speakership Hopeful Tajudeen Explains Why North-West Should Get Position The lawmaker also dismissed claims that he would be a “rubber stamp” if elected the Speaker of the House. One of the contestants for the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbass Tajudeen, insists that the North-West geopolitical zone remains the “rightful place” to produce the Speaker. Explaining why the North-West should produce the Speaker on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Tajudeen said the zone got the most votes for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election and also have 26 percent of the total members in the House. “The North-West has seven states and in the last election, we gave the President-elect more than 2.7 million votes. In every presidential election before now, the region that gave the highest votes is almost always the North-West. Secondly, the North-West has 93 members out of 360 which is almost 26 percent of the entire membe