The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has urged Nigerian Governors Forum to intervene in the leadership battle that has rocked the Plateau State House of Assembly of recent in other to restore sanity and orderliness.
Chairman of the Conference and Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Abubakar Y Suleiman, who led the delegation which include Rt Hon Speakers from Ogun, Ebonyi and Ekiti, made the plea during a crucial meeting between the leadership of the Speakers Conference and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, His Excellency, Dr Fayemi Kayode, which took place at the Governors Forum's Secretariat in Abuja.
The Speakers expressed deep concern over the Plateau State House of Assembly fracas in which two factions emerged with two different Speakers that led to the siege of the Assembly by the security operatives.
The Speakers therefore urged for the quick intervention of the Governors so that all parties involved in the crisis will sheath their sword and respect the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the respective rules and procedures of the Plateau State House of Assembly.
The Speakers who reiterated the sanctity of the legislative arm and the setback the crisis will bring to governance in Plateau State, also expressed their confidence that the Governors Forum and the Executive Governor of Plateau State, Rt. Hon. Simon Lalong, a lawyer by profession who was also a former Speaker of the same Assembly will quickly intervene on the matter so that normalcy will return in the Assembly.
Responding, Dr Fayemi Kayode commended the Conference of Speakers for their commitment to finding solution to the crisis that has rocked the Plateau Assembly and assured that the Forum is already closely monitoring the situation and has requested the Chairman of the North Central Governors Forum, HE, Abubakar Sani Bello, the Executive Governor of Niger State to travel to Jos and meet with the Governor of Plateau State and the two conflicting parties involved with the view to settling the dispute and ending the fracas as fast.
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