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Al-Makura Describes Lawmakers Sitting As Legislative Insanity

The probe panel inaugurated by the Nasarawa State chief judge last week to probe allegation of misconduct levelled against Governor Tanko Al-makura by the State … Continue reading Al-Makura Describes Lawmakers Sitting As Legislative Insanity


Alhaji-Tanko-Al-Makura2The probe panel inaugurated by the Nasarawa State chief judge last week to probe allegation of misconduct levelled against Governor Tanko Al-makura by the State House of  Assembly, today held its inaugural sitting in Lafia.

The panel sitting which was attended by all seven members, despite Wednesday’s purported sitting at Karu local government by the 20 PDP lawmakers, with a resolution directing the chief judge to reconstitute the panel.

Chairman of the probe panel, Mr Yusuf Usman, speaks on the panel sitting and the lawmakers’  resolution to re-constitute its membership, the procedures and sitting arrangements.

Meanwhile, governor Tanko Al-makura describes Wednesday’s sitting of the 20 PDP lawmakers in Karu, where the resolution was taken, directing the State’s Chief Judge to re-constitute the probe panel, as legislative insanity.

Mister Al-Makura while speaking through his senior special assistant on public affairs, accused the lawmakers of deliberating and deciding on a matter that is competently, before the State’s Chief judge, as the resolution amounts to nothing but illegality and runs contrary to subsisting Supreme court’s decision.

The 20 PDP lawmakers have abandoned the assembly complex following mass protest in support of the governor, hence the decision to relocate to Karu, a border town to the federal capital territory where the said resolution was passed, directing the Chief Judge to reconstitute the probe panel