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BAUCHI: Oshiomhole warns Bala Mohammed, says he’s inviting trouble
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has said the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed was for trouble over the crisis rocking the state House of Assembly.
He also warned him to avoid trouble by respecting the sanctity of the state House of Assembly.
The APC chairman gave the warning when the immediate past governor of the state, Abubakar Muhammad led APC aggrieved members of the House to the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Friday.
It would be recalled that 11 members of the assembly loyal to the governor had met and elected principal officers for the assembly.
The assembly has 31 members.
According to Oshiomhole, it was absurd that a minority party shut out 20 members of the APC in order to perpetuate the act in the “nocturnal hours”.
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He said: “There is no way the PDP can produce the speaker, the deputy speaker and other principal officers. If the governor insists, then he is inviting trouble for himself. He should have said he is vacating the governorship office until the determination of his case.
“So if we have not misused federal might or federal instrument or institution to prevent Governor Bala Mohammed from being inaugurated, it is a shame that he would rather sit and use federal institution to undermine the rights and privileges of the APC members elected duly by the people of Bauchi State certified by INEC to be inaugurated.”
Oshiomhole, who vowed that the party would ensure the police did the right thing in Bauchi by providing cover for the parliament and securing lives of members, also lamented that a similar scenario played out in his home state of Edo when nine members elect principal officers and shut out 15 others.
“Yours was 6am, Edo was 9.30 pm, all these are unholy hours. Those are nocturnal hours. The working hours for parliament are provided by the rules of the parliament. It is not up to anyone to change those rules only properly constituted parliament can change the rules as they are,” he added.
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