Crisis: 2 factions fail to reach agreement in Nasarawa Assembly
The two factions in the lingering leadership crisis in the Nasarawa State House of Assembly have failed to reach an agreement as to who leads the assembly as the 7th Speaker.
The meeting between the two factions of Daniel Ogazi and Ibrahim Balarabe, which lasted for more than three hours at the Nasarawa State Government Lodge in Abuja on Wednesday, ended in a deadlock.
Supreme News gathered that the lawmakers left the venue disappointed even as Gov. Abdullahi Sule arrived and waited for their resolution.
The two factional speakers declined to speak to newsmen who were waiting patiently for the outcome of the meeting.
However, Ogazi sent a text message saying that the meeting ended in a deadlock and expressed hope that they would meet again, while all efforts to hear from Balarabe were unfruitful.
Last week, the governor met with the twenty four lawmakers and pleaded with them to resolve the leadership impasse and report back to him in two days.
Supreme News reports that on June 8, the leadership crisis rocking the state assembly took another dimension as the 13 factional members during plenary passed a resolution suspending the 10 other factional members.
Supreme News also reports that, as a result of having two factional speakers in the state assembly, the inauguration of the 7th Assembly was postponed.
After the postponement, a leadership crisis erupted, and two speakers emerged, Balarabe and Ogazi, leading different groups.
While Balarabe was elected at a sitting in the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state by 11 out of 24 members, Ogazi was elected by 13 out of 24 members at plenary at the State Assembly complex.
As the crisis escalated, the state’s APC, led by its Chairman, John Mamman, endorsed Balarabe as the Speaker for the 7th State Assembly on June 9.
Not relenting, on June 10, Ogazi went to a Federal High Court in Lafia, seeking to stop Balarabe and Mr. Jacob Kudu from parading themselves as speaker and deputy speaker of the 7th Assembly, among other requests.
