Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Abdullahi, Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly.
By Collins Sunday – Lafia
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has passed a vote of confidence on its speaker, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, over his leadership qualities since he assumed Speakership position of the House.
Umar Tanko Tunga, the Majority Leader of the House and representative of Awe North Constituency gave the vote of confidence on Monday while speaking with newsmen in Lafia.
He explained that there have been speculations on the Social Media that there is tension in the state over plans to impeach the State Assembly Speaker.
Tunga who is a member of the rulling All Progressives Congress, APC, urged the people of the state and Nigeria at large to disregard the news in its entirety and described it as “fake news”.
According to him, “this House is one of the most peaceful Assembly in the country and has recorded the passage of many resolutions and bills that have direct bearing on the lives of the people of the state.
“There is a piece in the social media authored by one Abdullah Mohammed that Nasarawa State is in tension, as members are planning to impeach the Speaker, the reason is best known to the writer or his pay masters.
“Ordinarily, we would not have joined issues or give the writer unnecessary attention but for the avoidance of doubt and to clear the doubting minds of the public, I want to say clearly that this House is united, peaceful and we are solidly behind our Speaker, Rt.Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi.
“This House is 100 percent in support of the leadership of the Speaker and can not think of impeaching him at this material time.
“The report of the impeachment is not true. The writer is jealous of the successes recorded by our speaker and the House achievements”, he said.
Tunga added that the peace being enjoyed in the House was as a result of the Speaker’s purposeful leadership and all the lawmakers have unanimously declared their full support for him.
” There is a cordial relationship between us as lawmakers with the executive and the other arm of government and this is due to the excellent leadership being provided by the speaker”, he explained.
On his part, the Minority leader of the House, Hon. Danladi Jatau, representing Kokona West Constituency and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, described the information of impeaching the Speaker as false.
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“I consider this as the fake news of the year. As we enter the month of Ramadan, we should pray for God to expose evil planners against the House of Assembly and the state at large”, he said.
Hon Jatau said that all the 23 members of the House unanimously endorsed the vote of confidence on the Speaker for his sterling leadership qualities since he emerged as Speaker.
