KOGI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IMPEACH SPEAKER

Abdullahi Bello former Speaker Kogi House of Assembly

Members of the Kogi State House of Assembly have impeached the Speaker of the House Abdullahi Bello, and 10 other principal officers. The impeachment follows a running battle between the Speaker and some members, whom he had accused of plotting to remove him from office. 

The Kogi state House of Assembly has been in disarray in the last few months over plan by some aggrieved members to remove the Speaker and other principal officers of the House, It is not clear how many lawmakers were at Tuesday morning’s sitting as the House was not set to sit until Thursday.

The Minority Leader of the assembly, Yori Afolabi, had fingered the state governor Idris wada of dangling a whooping 15million naira to any lawmaker that consented to the impeachment. Afolabi wondered why the desperation to remove the leadership of the House.

Meanwhile, the lawmakers have elected Lawal Jimoh to replace Bello as Speaker.
More details later.