After the Sallah break lawmakers will be back to the National Assembly to continue their lobbying efforts towards getting super committees.
This is a common practice in the legislative parlance worldwide and in the Nigerian legislature, heads of caucuses and zonal coordinators play vital roles.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reliably gathered that most of the lawmakers who arrived at the weekend from their various constituencies are reaching out to zonal coordinators and caucus leaders.
A source privy to this development told TNG that “it’s no crime for lawmakers to lobby for whatever you journalists call juicy committees. But don’t rule out the possibility that those who actively participated in ensuring that the right thing was done must definitely smile.
“Don’t forget that this is a unique assembly because of the onslaught of other parties in this dispensation.
“We’re doing everything humanly possible to ensure that both chambers don’t get their hands burnt this time around considering the manner the leaders emerged.
In the Senate there are 63 committees and other various sub-committees while in the House of Representatives there are 89 standing committees and other committees.
In the Senate, the issue of who gets what is always not knotty because there are 109 senators while in the House of Reps it is always a ‘Dugbe’ market affair as more than 350 members jostle for juicy committees.
Another lawmaker who also spoke to TNG under the condition of anonymity said: ” in other climes it’s usually a walkover as they know those that have the capacity to handle certain sensitive committees because of their backgrounds.
“Here we look at faces and give legislative positions to both the capable and the grossly incompetent ones but this time around the situation may change for the betterment of all.
“Those in charge in both chambers are men who had proven that they can always right the wrongs.