Grieving from the refusal of the Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly to swear them into office, the 16 elected All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the State on Tuesday took their case to the APC headquarters in Abuja, where they sought the immediate intervention of President Bola Tinubu.
At a meeting with APC national chairman Umar Ganduje, and a press briefing afterwards, the lawmakers said they were losing patience with they called the unlawful denial of their rights by the leadership of the State House of Assembly.
Led by Hon. Maiyaki Theodore Bala, he lawmakers said their constituents who elected them were also pressuring them for lack of representation in the affairs of Plateau State.
They also called on the United Nations, United States of America, European Union, United Kingdom, and all lovers of democracy to “compel the insidious Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly to promptly convene the Assembly which has been on recess for about five months, and inaugurate its members”.
Bala, said the intervention of President Tinubu has become very important without further delay to avert any breakdown of law and order.
According to him: “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 five 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.
“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.
“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.”
