The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase, on Friday vowed not to withdraw from the race for the position of Speaker in the 10th National Assembly.
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The meeting, it was gathered started 3:00 pm and it is expected to feature the Lower Chambers discussions with ASUU representatives recently.
The house leadership has called the meeting in the aftermath of a series of terrorist attacks in Kaduna State.
This was contained in the report of the constitution amendment Bill that was presented before the House by Rep. Ahmed Wase, the Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee, on Wednesday in Abuja.
This followed the adoption of a motion on matter of urgent public importance by Rep. Ahmed Wase, the Deputy Speaker.
The bill passed its final stage at the Green Chambers on Tuesday in Abuja when members voted at the Committee of the Whole presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Rep. Ahmed Wase.
The resolution was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rimamnde Kwewum (PDP-Taraba) and co-sponsored by Olajide Olatubosun (APC-Oyo), at plenary on Thursday.
In a protest letter addressed to the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, NIDO referred to a video clip which it said had gone viral on the social media in which the Deputy Speaker, while standing in for the speaker during a plenary, made disparaging statements against Nigerians in the diaspora
This was made known by Wase’s Chief Press Secretary, Umar Puma, in a statement on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Hembe announced his defection at Tuesday’s plenary, declining to state reasons for his action.
The Committee, chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Rep. Ahmed Wase (APC-Plateau), met with heads of security agencies in the country on Monday in Abuja
In a congratulatory massage signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mohammed Umar-Puma, Wase called on the new emir to build on the legacies of his forefathers.
Among the lawmakers who jettisoned the resolution were the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase (APC-Plateau); and the Majority Leader, Ado Doguwa (APC-Kano)
The ECOWAS Parliament on Monday elected Sidie Mohammed Tunis from Sierra Leone as the new Speaker of the sub-regional parliament.
The speaker while calling off the meeting said that the representatives sent by the Service Chiefs were not acceptable to the leadership of the house.
Hon. Ahmed Wase, Deputy Speaker, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, has been sworn in as a new Member of the ECOWAS Parliament during the Second Extra Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Monrovia, Liberia.
In a congratulatory message on Saturday in Abuja, Wase described the monarch as an icon of peace.
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has congratulated the newly elected leadership of the ninth National Assembly, inaugurated on Tuesday.
Kaduna State members-elect of the House of Representatives on the platform of All Progressives Congress on Sunday reaffirmed their support for Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila for office of Speaker of the 9th Assembly.
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, passed a bill seeking to help plug leakages in government’s streams of income in the oil sector for second reading.