PDP candidates for the state assembly elections, Sunday Maiyaki, Daniel Jones and Joseph Olupeka, have resigned their party membership.
APC has nominated Abbas Tajudeen (APC-Kaduna) to succeed Mr Gbajabiamila, and Benjamin Kalu (APC-Abia) as the deputy speaker.
“Our intention in preferring an engagement with the executive based on harmony and collaboration has been to better serve Nigeria.”
Consequently, the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) ratified Abass Tajudeen, a Kaduna lawmaker, to lead the House of Representatives as Speaker.
“I did not want to be a clog in the wheel of his progress, so I accepted,” he said.
He congratulated Mr Tinubu, just as he commended President Muhammadu Buhari on the conduct of the general election.
Mr Akpabio is one of the leading aspirants for the Senate presidency in the 10th National Assembly.
Mr Abubakar is challenging the outcome of the February 25 Presidential election before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja.
