The House of Representatives may dispatch a fact finding team to Lokoja later this week on the crisis rocking the State House of Assembly, if indications in the Green Chambers of the National Assembly are anything to go by.
Five members of the assembly last Tuesday claimed to have impeached Speaker Momoh Jimoh.
Jimoh turned up in Abuja on Friday to denounce the action of the five assemblymen.
He accused the state’s newly appointed Deputy Governor Simon Achuba of instigating the crisis.
Although formal debate on the Kogi crisis is yet to take place on the floor of the House of Representatives, members across the political divide are already discussing modalities for sending a fact-finding team to Lokoja.
A member who requested anonymity said that a petition submitted by Momoh Jimoh and 14 of his supporters in the House over the purported impeachment by five other members would be formally laid before the House on Tuesday.
The source further disclosed that leaders of the APC and PDP in the House have discreetly resolved to invoke any necessary constitutional provision if there are indications of an agenda by the executive or members of the state’s legislature.
According to the legislator, there is already an informal consensus about the need to send a fact-finding team to Lokoja but Tuesday’s formal deliberations will determine the conclusion.
“If there is any need to checkmate excesses aimed solely at checkmating Honourable Faleke, be assured that irrespective of political affiliations, members of this House will not unduly forsake their own”, he said.
The petition submitted by Jimoh and 14 of his colleagues to the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, was addressed to the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara.
Credit: The Nation
