VOTE FEMI GBAJA BIAMILA FOR HOUSE OF REP.

VOTE  FEMI GBAJA BIAMILA

Femi Gbaja Biamila (born June 1962, surname also spelled Gbaja-Biamila and Gbajabiamila) is a Nigerian lawyer, Action Congress politician, and Minority Whip of the House of Representatives.

Gbaja Biamila attended Igbobi College in Yaba, Lagos, King William's College on the Isle of Man, United Kingdom,^[1] John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the University of Lagos in Lagos.

Gbaja Biamila was elected to the House in 2003, and re-elected in 2007. He represents the Surulere I constituency of Lagos State (see Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Lagos) in the House of Representatives. He is the House's Minority Whip.
Gbaja Biamila has criticized members of Congress for switching parties. He suggested that many voters don't have access to the information to make choices based on every individual stance, and therefore are sometimes only vote for candidates based on their party alignment. He criticized floppers with this in mind, saying the effect "cannot be anything but negative."
In September 2011, it was reported that Gbaja Biamila was implicated in a bribery scandal, with one lawmaker threatening to expose him to the media if he did not pay him back entirely.
Gbajabiamila is the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. He heads the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating claims by the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON that 140.9 Billion Naira (about One Billion Dollars), which was owed by Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited and Forte Oil Plc, has been paid. The call for investigation of the reported payment was made by another lawmaker, Bimbo Daramola who moved the motion that the House set up a panel to verify the claims by AMCON that the Femi Otedola-owned two companies have paid back the money which the government of Nigeria paid for petroleum products reportedly not delivered as agreed upon by the dictates of the government's fuel subsidy scheme. Bimbo Daramola had suspected that the payment, if truly made, was "shrouded in secrecy."

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