House to investigate Chinda, others for minority leadership tussle

The House of Representatives on Wednesday started its investigation on four of its members who allegedly claimed to be leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, caucus.

The four members include the member representing Obio/Akpor constituency, Kingsley Chinda.

Others are Toby Okechukwu, Umar Barde and Muraina Ajibola.

Chinda had lost the tussle to be the minority leader of the house.

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When PDP member, Ben Igbakpa, raised a point of order calling for a probe, the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, who presided over the plenary on Wednesday, referred the matter to the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges for investigation, Punch reports.

The conglomerate of opposition parties in the House had appointed Ndudi Elumelu as Minority Leader, Toby Okechukwu as Deputy Minority Leader, Gideon Gwani as Minority Whip, and Adesegun Adekoya as Deputy Minority Whip.

However, Chinda had signed at least two statements recently, as the PDP Caucus Leader; Chukwuma Onyema as Deputy Caucus Leader; Umar Barde as Caucus Whip; and Muraina Ajibola as the Deputy Caucus Whip.

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