EXCITING NEWS: TNG WhatsApp Channel is LIVE…
Subscribe for FREE to get LIVE NEWS UPDATE. Click here to subscribe!
By Emman Ovuakporie
More facts emerged on Friday on how South West lawmakers betrayed their southern colleagues to pass the controversial Electoral Act Amendment Bill.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reliably gathered that South West lawmakers were specifically informed to vote against transmission of electoral results as captured in Clause 52(2) of the contentious piece of legislation.
This is just as their northern counterparts were busy praising Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase who diligently delivered the northern agenda on their behalf.
The source a top ranking member of the House said”it’s celebration galore as all manners of encomiums are showered on Wase, the technician and conqueror of the south.
“Despite in the face of massive intimidation, he (Wase) held his ground and ensured the Bill flies to the detriment of Nigerians.
“As for our South West brothers although not too surprised because it’s their trade mark, they betrayed us because of phone calls from Lagos.
“As at Thursday they were with us and immediately it was confirmed that Senator Remi Tinubu voted against it we all knew we had lost our southern lawmakers.
” If they had remained with us there’s no way what transpired on the floor will fly but all these collateral errors will impact on democracy negatively.
“But we are still watching the trend because even in the senate the south west Senators betrayed us.