The PDP, which has majority of the members of the house also said status quo should be maintained with the incumbent Speaker, Momoh Jimoh and others retained in their positions. Saturday Tribune gathered that the PDP lawmakers were on Thursday summoned to the national secretariat of the party where they held a meeting with members of the National Working Committee, led by the acting national chairman, Uche Secondus. The meeting, according to sources, was held following an alleged move by the governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to replace Momoh with a lawmaker from his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). The proposed change in the leadership was predicated on the need to balance the first three posts among the three senatorial districts of the state since the new governor and the Speaker are from the same local government area in the Central Senatorial district of the state. Bello had early in the week met with the members of the House, where the issue of leadership was discussed and he was said to have expressed his preference for the member representing Lokoja 1 state constituency, Umar Imam. Worried by the alleged concession of some of the PDP lawmakers, the national leadership was said to have told them to return to Lokoja and occupy the posts they were holding before the coming of Bello as governor.]]>