The Jigawa State House of Assembly has sacked its Speaker, Hon. Idris Garba. He was quickly replaced with Alhaji Isa Idris who represents Gwaram Constituency.
The Clerk of the House, Alhaji Hussaini Ali had earlier announced that he received an impeachment notice signed by 25 of the 30 members. He read the notice on the floor of the House.
Ali said that the speaker was impeached as a result of what members called his high handedness and abuse of power.
The Deputy Speaker Garba confirmed that 25 of the 30-member assembly endorsed the impeachment notice and that it met the constitutional requirement of two third to impeach any of its principal officers.
“With this development, I hereby declare the seat of the Speaker vacant and a fresh election should be conducted to elect the new speaker.”
Immediately after the announcement of the speaker’s impeachment, two members– Alhaji Isa Dutse of Dutse Municipal constituency and Isa Idris of Gwaram constituency– were nominated for the election to replace him and Isa Idris defeated Isa Dutse with 12 to six votes.
The new Speaker promised to run an open door policy and solicited members support and cooperation. [myad]
