As the leadership crisis rocking Plateau State House of Assembly deepens, the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has urged the Nigeria Governors Forum to as a matter of urgency intervene in the crisis in order to save democracy in the state.
The call was made by the chairman of the Conference who is the Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Y Suleiman, when he led other Speakers from Ogun, Ebonyi and Ekiti states on a crucial meeting between the leadership of the Speakers’ Conference and the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum who is the Governor of Ekiti State, Fayemi Kayode which took place at the Governors Forum’s Secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Speakers expressed deep concern over the Plateau State House of Assembly leadership fracas which has produced two factions emerged with two different Speakers thereby leading to the siege of the Assembly by security operatives.
The Speakers therefore called for the quick intervention of the Governors so that all parties involved in the crisis will sheath their swords and respect the sanctity of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as democratic tenets and procedures.
The Speakers reiterated the sanctity of the legislative arm and the setback the crisis will bring to governance in Plateau State, expressing their confidence that the Governors Forum and the Executive Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong, a lawyer who was a former Speaker of the Assembly, will quickly intervene on the matter so that normalcy will return in the Assembly.
In his response, the chairman of the Governors Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Fayemi Kayode commended the Conference for their commitment to finding a lasting solution to the leadership crisis that has rocked the Plateau state House of Assembly in the past few months.
He stated that the Forum is closely monitoring the situation and has requested the Chairman of the North Central Governors Forum and Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello to travel to Jos and meet the Governor of Plateau State as well as all the parties involved with a view to ending the fracas as contained in a statement by Abdul Ahmad Burra, Spokesperson to the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly
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