Nasarawa State Assembly Speakership Crisis: NNPP Stakeholder Seeks Gov. Sule’s Intervention
The senatorial candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) for Nasarawa West in the last National Assembly election, Kabir Wakili, has urged Gov. Abdullahi Sule to intervene in the lingering speakership tussle in the State House of Assembly.
He made the appeal while addressing news reporters on issues of concern in the House on Saturday in Abuja.
On June 8, the leadership crisis rocking the State Assembly took another dimension with the emergence of two factions, each with their separate speaker – Ibrahim Balarabe and Daniel Ogazi.
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In addition to this, 13 factional members during plenary passed a resolution, suspending 10 members of the other faction.
Wakili expressed worry over the crisis, saying that it was undemocratic for the House of Assembly to have two factional speakers.
“Members of the State House of Assembly were elected, but Nasarawa State is the only State that its legislators cannot sit and legislate.
“This is quite unfortunate. We are calling on the government of the State to hasten effort to do something possible to salvage the crisis in the interest of the people of the State.
“The government should quickly address the issue and give legislators the freehand to do their legislative duties,” Wakili pleaded.
The party stalwart further decried the payment of June salaries to members of the Balarabe faction while neglecting Ogazi’s faction, saying that reciept of salaries was the fundamental right of all members who were elected into the House.
“They have been duly elected as members of the House of Assembly. It is their entitlement and legitimate right to be paid their salaries.
“Why would the government pay a faction and leave out the other; that is unconstitutional,” he said.
He called on stakeholders in the State to come together in order to bring about the needed development in the State.
NAN
