- Speaker of Kano House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdullahi Yusuf Ata, may be impeached
- There are reports that 21 lawmakers have reportedly voted in support of the impeachment
Members of Kano state House of Assembly have reportedly voted to impeach Speaker of the house, Alhaji Abdullahi Yusuf Ata.
NAIJ.com gathers that the vote to impeach Ata was secretely done on Sunday night, May 13.
Daily Trust reports that Twenty-one (21) lawmakers have signed in support of the impeachmen and a source confirmed that already the principal officers of the house had been impeached having got the 21 lawmakers signed for their impeachment.
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The source said: "We have already impeached the primcipal officers by having 21 lawmakers signed for their impeachment and we are needing only six members to make the requirement of 2/3 to impeach the speaker."
The source also blamed incompetence as the reason Ata is about to be impeached by other lawmakers.
"The reasons are many but the major one is incompetency. The speaker has completely localised the house.
"We cannot sit until after 2pm and even at that things are not moving as expected. We cannot just continue like that because we are representing our conatituwnts."
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NAIJ.com earlier reported that General Yakubu Gowon (retd), Nigeria’s former head of state, has cautioned against the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari or removal of other elected officials; stating that such an eventuality would not augur well for the country’s democracy.
He made the comments as he received members of the Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly (NLSA) in a courtesy visit on Thursday, May 3, in Abuja.
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Source: Naija.ng
