From Saka Bolaji, Minna
The Niger state house of assembly members and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state are in a loggerhead over the decision of the party requesting for the removal of house majority leader.
The faceoff between the legislators and the party arose from the request by the party leadership for the removal of the majority leader of the house Alhaji Nura Garba and his replacement with Alhaji Isah Dandodo Ibrahim.
The state house of assembly is composed of 27 lawmakers 25 of them elected on the platform of the APC.
The letter in which the APC made the request was signed by the state Chairman Mohammed Jibril Imam and was read at plenary on Wednesday.
All the legislators were unhappy with the request of their party describing it as “undue interference” in their affairs that must not be accepted.
The legislators in throwing out the letter by Imam cited some sections of the house standing rules which prescribed that principal officers of the assembly should be elected by the legislators themselves.
Executive members of the party led by the state secretary Alhaji Mohammed Liman who were at the assembly were disappointed by the decision and left with long faces.
The party secretary declined to speak to newsmen after walking out of the assembly saying “go and ask them anything you want to hear.”
Meanwhile, the executive arm of government also in a memo to the assembly on Wednesday dropped one of the four remaining commissioners nominees Mr John Sabo Koce and replaced him with Mr Duza Emmanuel Babur.
The governor re-presented the list containing Alhaji Danjuma Salau from Munya LG, Isah Kanko, Wushishi LG and Kabiru Abbas Musa Mariga to the assembly for its consideration and confirmation.
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