Plateau: Order Speaker to inaugurate us, 16 APC lawmakers tells Tinubu, Mutfwang

The 16 All Progressives Congress member-elect of the Plateau State House of Assembly, are appealing to President Bola Tinubu and the Governor of the state, Barr. Caleb Mutfwang, to order the Speaker of the House, Gabriel Dewan, to immediately convene a sitting and swear them in.

The lawmakers made the appeal shortly after meeting with the APC National Chairman, Dr. Umar Ganduje, at the party headquarters on Tuesday.

Briefing newsmen, Prof. Theodore Bala Maiyaki who spoke on behalf of the group, expressed dissatisfaction over the refusal of the speaker to convene the House for about five months now, warning that it is disastrous to governance.

They however called for urgent intervention to prevent the breakdown of Law and order in the state.

“We call on the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu GCFR, His Excellency the Governor of Plateau State, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, The Attorney-General of the Federation, The Inspector-General of Police, to order/direct the insidious and recalcitrant Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly to promptly convene the Plateau State House of Assembly that has been on recess for about 5 months and inaugurate us the 16 legitimate members of the Plateau State House of Assembly returned by INEC without further delay to avert any breakdown of Law and order.

“We call on the United Nations, The United States of America, The European Union, The United Kingdom, and all lovers of democracy all over the world to bring pressure to bear on all the institutions of governance and democracy to compel the insidious and recalcitrant Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly to promptly convene the Plateau State House of Assembly that has been on recess for about 5 months and inaugurate us the 16 legitimate members of the Plateau State House of Assembly without further delay to avert any breakdown of Law and order.

“May we also call on all our traditional rulers, the clergy, community leaders, leaders of thought, civil society organizations, pressure groups, community, and ethnic associations, true friends of democracy, NBA, lawyers, human rights activists, and all well-meaning Nigerians to urgently rise to the occasion by putting pressure on the insidious and recalcitrant Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly to promptly convene the Plateau State House of Assembly that has been on recess for about 5 months and inaugurate us the 16 legitimate members of the Plateau State House of Assembly without further delay to avert any breakdown of Law and order”, the said.

“We call on the Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly and the Conference of Former Speakers of State Houses of Assembly to save the state from descending to the precipice and state of anarchy by bringing to bear your regime of influence and authority to compel a return to true democracy on the Plateau. The present status quo is odious, reprehensible, condemnable, and requires urgent intervention. The good people of Plateau State look up to you to rescue us from the current imbroglio.

“We wish to state categorically that the 16 of us legitimate members of the Plateau State House of Assembly here present are united and resolute in faith that the Plateau project is our collective responsibility. No one person is a greater or better Plateau than the other. We are conjoined in one destiny, and all the sentiments canvassed about our collective destiny and heritage are squarely at the center of our opportunities and we shall leave no stone unturned to ensure the realization of this noble and solemn dream”, he added.