Group backs Betara for Reps speaker

With about 72 hours to the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, a support organisation in the All Progressives Congress under the aegis of Progressive Support Group on Saturday charged the House of Representatives members-elect and Nigerians to reject attempts by the ruling party to impose a leadership on the legislature.

The organisation said the advice became necessary to avoid truncating of the nation�s democracy and pocketing of the parliament away from meeting their constituted roles to the electorate.

The spokesperson for the group, Silas Wettok, in a statement, called on the lawmakers to consider national interest of the country first, maintaining that Nigeria was bigger than any political group or individual.

Wettok urged members-elect to throw their weight behind the member representing Biu/Bayo/Shani Federal Constituency of Borno State, Hon. Muktar Aliyu Betara, for the position of Speaker in the 10th National Assembly.