Rumbles over Bauchi Assembly impasse - The Nation Newspaper

effects of the disagreements on the current government of the state, reports Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu

APC was not impressed by the plea. The party in a statement signed by the state secretary, Bako Hussaini, said Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution did not empower a state governor to suspend the inauguration of an Assembly after issuing a proclamation to that effect. The confusion and disagreement peaked when two speakers eventually emerged as two factional groups of lawmakers converged differently and elected different speakers; one from the PDP and another from the APC. On the appointed date for the election and inauguration of the leadership of the Assembly, a wield drama was enacted by the contending lawmakers. It came in two contradictory acts, leaving a glaring lacuna in the state’s polity.

The verbal antagonism did not end at the state level. For example, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of APC, was so angry over the development that he reportedly called for the sealing off of the Bauchi House of Assembly. The former governor of Edo State warned the Bauchi state governor to stay away from championing what he described as ‘illegality in the House.’

He also said that if Mohammed had submitted to the rule of law, the governor would have no choice than to submit himself and the PDP in Bauchi to rule of law. As he puts it: “I assure you, on behalf of APC, that we stand by the statement we made that the purported election organised under cover with illegal use of the Nigerian Police to install a puppet against the wish of the majority of the members cannot stand and it will not stand by God’s grace.

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