The two claimants to the Speaker’s seat in the Kogi State House of Assembly may lose it to a yet-to-be-named member of the House today as the house resumes sitting after the prolonged crisis that engulfed the House following the impeachment of the former Speaker, Hon. Abdullahi Bello and the other officers of the house.
The house, which broke into two factions with each headed by its Speaker and principal officers were said to have agreed to resume today after the intervention of the former governor of the states, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris.
Though the reconciliation was said not to have ended on a good note as the legislators engaged each other in a free-for-all-fight in a hotel at Abuja, where the meeting was held to broker peace by the former governor.
But before the fight broke out, there was an agreement that Alhaji Abdullahi Bello should preside over today’s meeting to give legitimacy to the proceeding since he had alleged that the house didn’t form a quorum before he was removed. It was further learnt that he will then resign so that election can be conducted by the whole house to produce the new leadership.
What it means, according to an insider, was that all the principal officers under the new leadership of Mr. Jimoh Lawal, will seize to exist and a set of new leadership will be elected by the whole house. But, tension has started rising as both camps are now reluctant to see the accord through.
By ADEMU IDAKWO
Culled from Nigeriamasterweb
