In an article by Senator Babafemi Ojudu, the Political Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari in the Office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Presidency insinuated and said Saraki had been working with the likes of retired General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the Nigeria Police, Department of State Services and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
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In a brief speech when they met Ortom at the Government House, Makurdi, Secondus described the impeachment plot initiated by eight members of the Benue State legislature as “an act of illegality” and urged Nigerians to rise against it
The Presidency has condemned attempts in some quarters to drag the name of President Muhammadu Buhari into the on-going political saga in Benue State House of Assembly.
The anti-graft agency said some of the cash withdrawals were made in bits of N10 million over the counter
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned what he termed the awkward political development in Benue State where some lawmakers, aided and abetted by the Nigeria Police Force, came together to illegally occupy the Benue State House of Assembly and serve impeachment notice to Governor Samuel Ortom.
In a statement jointly signed by their aides in charge of media, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Turaki Hassan, Saraki and Dogara also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the police to order and stop them being used to achieve political purposes
The policemen had last week also stormed the Assembly, with lawmakers who are pro-Governor Ortom jumping the fence to enter the House
Members of Benue State House of Assembly on Friday scaled the high perimeter fence surrounding the Assembly Complex and jumped into the premises in an attempt to hold a parliamentary session.
Cited as Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Law, 2018, the bill was passed at plenary after a clause by clause consideration by the Committee of the whole presided by the Speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange.
The governor, whose appearance was in obedience to a summon issued on Tuesday, told the law makers that 18 local government areas were hit by the incessant attacks that had claimed several lives and displaced “close to a million”.
The bill recorded an increment of N11.5 billion over the N178.3 billion that was presented to the Assembly by Governor Samuel Ortom in December 2017.
Its chairman, Adoga Onah, who announced this during plenary, said it made the discovery in the course of its oversight duty to the board.
The pan-Tiv traditional institution predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari would not score any vote if he seeks re-election in 2019
The letter stated that following the recommendation from the National Judicial Council, Governor Samuel Ortom had approved Onum’s appointment.
The Chairman, Committee on Education, Ngunan Addingi, had said the state needed a legal framework that would aid in the eradication of examination malpractice
The House had on Tuesday received the report of its Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources on the bill to prohibit open grazing in the State
The House arrived at the decision during plenary on Tuesday
The confirmation followed a letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Tony Ijohor, and read by the Speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange
Ortom made the presentation on the floor of the House during plenary
The APC and the Peoples Democratic Party’s free for all fight at plenary started when the Speaker, Terkimbi Kyange, read the APC’s letter in which it claimed majority after a lawmaker of the PDP defected into its fold, which gave it a marginal lead over the PDP