Confusion In Plateau Assembly, Embattled Impeached Speaker Holds Plenary, Suspend Six Lawmakers

Twelve members of the Plateau State House of Assembly under the leadership of Ayuba Abok have suspended the new Speaker Yakubu Sanda who was elected earlier today.

Hon Abok Ayuba on Thursday set up a parallel house of assembly and  sanctioned the members who spearheaded his impeachment.

The embattled Speaker Ayuba presided  over a plenary with the maze outside the premises of the State Assembly, alongside 13 other members of the House, cutting across party lines upheld a motion raised by the Deputy Majority Leader of the Assembly, Philip Dasun and seconded by the Minority Leader, Peter Gyendeng to suspend the six members.

The suspended  the Deputy Speaker, Saleh Yipmong, Majority Leader, Na’anlong Daniel, the new Speaker, Yakubu Sanda, former Deputy Speaker, Ibrahim Baba Hassan, Eric Dakogol, Abubakar Balo.

The House members also passed a vote of confidence on the embattled Speaker, declaring that they stand for the truth, justice, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, democracy and the people of the State.

While speaking to Journalists, House Committee Chairman on Information, Philip Dasun said, “The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria makes a clear provision for the impeachment of the Speaker, it requires a 2/3 majority, we are 24, we are supposed to have a minimum of 16 members to sign and affirm the impeachment of the Speaker.

“To our greatest surprise, we were in the House today very early in the morning, we got an information that there an attempt to impeach our Speaker. I went and I found seven people and I was the eighth person before the rest came. We are not in agreement with what happened, the Governor is a lawyer, he knows the constitution, he will not accept that illegal process, if he does, it is left for him to battle with his profession.”