The group said the President-elect would need as Speaker somebody with capacity, sincere support and understanding, attributes found in Sani-Jaji, who is the House Committee Chairman on Security and Intelligence.
Chairman of the group, Salis Muhammad-Moriki, while addressing a press conference in Kaduna on Sunday, said for fairness and justice, the President-elect and the leadership of All Progressives Congress should support the candidature of Hon. Aminu Sani-Jaji, who hails from the North-West zone
as the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.
He said, “We are ardently following the issue of the current political dispensation in the country, especially the zoning of key positions to the various geo-political zones in the country, in order to reflect equal representation among the six geo-political zones in the country.
“As we are all aware, the President has emerged from the South-West and Vice President from the North East. It is expected that the Senate President would emerge from the South-South or South-East while the Speaker, House of Representatives, would emerge from the North-West.
“In view of the above, we are calling on the President-elect, and APC leadership in general, to support the candidature of Hon. Aminu Sani-Jaji as the Speaker, House of Representatives, who hails from Zamfara state.
“The President needs as Speaker somebody with capacity, sincere support and understanding.
“In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past where the Executive and Legislature were at loggerheads, there’s need to have a Speaker that has been with the president and both understand each other even before President-elect, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, was nominated as APC presidential flag bearer. Hon. Aminu Sani-Jaji has been with President-elect and worked with him even before now.
“Hon. Aminu Jaji hails from Zamfara state, being the state that hasn’t ever produced a Speaker in the zone since 1999. There is need for the state to have a Speaker of the House of Representatives for equity and justice, especially now that the state produces a person with integrity and capacity.
“Aminu Sani-Jaji has worked tirelessly with his personal resources to actualise the Presidency of Asíwájú Ahmed Bola Tinubu in this, being the chairman of contact and mobilisation committee of the Presidential Campaign Committee.
“Hon. Aminu Sani-Jaji has been one of the pillars of the APC in Zamfara and North-West in general.
“He’s one of the few people in Zamfara with grassroots support and sponsorship of the party in the state. He influenced the success of Bola Tinubu
“Therefore, we call on the President-elect, Asíwájú Ahmed Bola Tinubu and APC leadership to, as a matter of justice, good working relation between Legislature and Executive, and to have a person with the capacity to translate vision into reality, to support the candidature of Hon. Aminu Sani-Jaji.
“We also urge the President-elect and APC leadership to ignore those deforming his character, especially some section of APC leadership in the state, who are jealous of his popularity and unmatched achievements.”
