Dogora's deal, Gbajabiamila's gain.

The peace deal between Speaker Dogora and Gbajabiamila was worked out on Tuesday's afternoon in the office of the Clark while many of the House members were in the Chambers at a session presided over by the deputy speaker, Yusuf Lasun from Osun State. The prospects for peace at the beginning of that Tuesday, however, had not looked promising especially after supporters of Dogora after a meeting  resolved to heed the party's injunction for peace halfway. In their resolution  which they adopted as adopting the party's position as amended, they had resolved they would take the instructions of the party national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun by returning some of those nominated by the party for the principal offices: Ado Doguwa (kano) for House Leader,  Bala Jibrin(kogi) for Deputy Leader, Pally Iriase (Edo) for chief Whip and Chike Okafor (Imo) for Deputy Chief Whip. In adherence to the principle of federal character, the Dogora group at their last caucus meeting which ended sometime around 00.30hours on Tuesday morning had rejected the plea for Gbajabiamila to became House Leader on the premise that his Southwest zone had already produced the deputy speaker of the House. However, their will was however, reportedly broken later in the day upon pressures from the presidency that  weighed in for Gbajabiamila to get the position. "From the body language of the president it was obvious he wanted Femi,and we could not go ahead to disparage the wishes of the leader of the party," a source in the Dogora camp said.