Emeka Nnamani, the Labour Party (LP) Rep-elect for Aba South/Aba North Federal Constituency of Abia, says the South-East will speak with one voice in the election of the Speaker of the house.

Mr Nnamani said this when he spoke with journalists in Abuja on Sunday, saying that despite being elected on different platforms, the zone would speak with one voice and provide block votes.

“People will ordinarily think the 10th National Assembly is going to be chaotic and dramatic, but I can assure you that it is going to be interesting, and the legislature is not going to be a rubber stamp.

“And it will not lose its independence. The 10th Assembly is going to be quite interesting and intriguing because of the mixture of people from different parties and platforms that have arrived for the legislative business,” he said.

Mr Nnamani said for the first time the South-East, which had been noted in the past as having issues of not being together at all times, had changed the narrative.

He added that the lawmakers-elect from the region would speak with one voice in the choice of who becomes the Speaker.

Speaking on Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, the APC preferred candidate for the speakership, described him as an insightful personality, who had the intellectual capacity to lead the 10th Assembly.

Mr Nnamani endorsed Rep. Ben Kalu (APC-Abia) for the deputy speakership of the 10th Assembly because he was sound-minded.

(NAN)