The speaker of Katsina State House of Assembly,
Aliyu Sabiu Muduru, was yesterday taken by surprise when 23 of the 34 assembly
members passed a vote of no confidence in his leadership and thereafter impeached
him.
Muduru, who presided over yesterday’s sitting, had
called for adjournment when the majority leader, Hambali Faruk, drew the
attention of the unsuspecting outgoing speaker under matters of public
importance.
He said that 23 members of the House have lost
confidence in him, and therefore asked him to vacate his seat as speaker.
The House then asked the deputy speaker, Shehu Tafoki,
to take charge before the election of a new speaker.
It was from there that the legislators asked all the
people in the gallery, including pressmen to leave the chamber.
During their closed door session, the legislators
elected Yahaya Kusada as new speaker.
They thereafter called in journalists to witness the
swearing in of the new speaker, who in turn promised to carry all along.
Kusada, who described his emergence as speaker as “a
great surprise” said leadership comes from Allah.
As the events were unfolding, the visibly surprised
impeached speaker, alongside six other members hurriedly left the gallery and
drove off in a Peugeot SUV.
Muduru, 34, the youngest speaker in Nigeria before his
ouster, emerged the number three citizen in Katsina State shortly after the
2015 elections when the House standing rules were amended to give him easy ride
to the post.
The previous assembly had enacted a law banning a
‘fresher’ from becoming speaker.
Sources said Muduru was seen by his colleagues as “a
stooge whose close romance with the executive arm of government does not speak
well of the legislature.”
Source:Daily Trust
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