Buhari, Lalong will win in 2019 – Plateau Speaker
The Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, Joshua Madaki, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Simon Lalong will win the 2019 elections in the state.
The speaker said this while addressing the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters during their solidarity rally for Ibrahim Baba Hassan, a member representing Jos North-North constituency at the Plateau State House of Assembly. The leadership crisis rocking the Benue State House of Assembly continued in a Makurdi High Court yesterday as the pending case over the matter was adjourned to August 24 for hearing. Two factions of the lawmakers are laying claim to the leadership of the House.
But an interim order issued by the presiding judge, Justice Theresa Igoche, is restraining the factional leaders subsist, with one group ordered not to parade themselves as principal officers of the House and the other directed not to reconvene at the assembly complex.
The impeached speaker, Terkimbi Ikyange, is insisting that he remains the substantive speaker, while the newly elected speaker, Titus Uba, is also claiming right of office after his 22-member faction met without the embattled Ikyange convening the House while on recess. At the resumed trial yesterday, the matter could not continue for the dual reasons of problem of service and time requirement for response to court process.
Justice Igoche, after listening to both counsels, adjourned the matter to August, 24.