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Court Dismisses Adamawa Lawmaker’s Suit Against Suspension

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A Yola High Court presided over by Justice Ambrose Mammadi has struck out a suit by a member of the Adamawa House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abubakar, challenging his suspension by the House for three months.

 

Abubakar represents Mubi South Constituency in the House on the platform of the APC.
Mammadi in a ruling on Thursday in Yola said the court has no jurisdiction to interfere in the affairs of the legislature.
Mammadi, who ruled on the preliminary objection by the respondents challenging the court jurisdiction to entertain the suit, declared that the matter was an internal affair of the House and was therefore struck out.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Abubakar had in 2015 dragged the Speaker, Alhaji Kabiru Mijinyawa, and the Assembly to court over his suspension for three months and dissolution of the House Committee on Finance, which he chaired.
The state Attorney General was later joined in the suit as a 3rd respondent.
Abubakar was suspended in November 2015 for improper dressing and violation of the House rules.
The suspension followed Abubakar’s media interview in which he criticised the Assembly’s decision to approve a sectoral virement for the executive in the 2015 budget.
Commenting on the ruling, counsel to the respondents, Mr M. A. Abdulkadir, described it as “a well considered judgement”.
On his part, counsel to the plaintiff, Mr Ever Udo, said “we may consider appeal”.
But in his reaction, Abubakar said “I leave the matter to God”.

 

(NAN)

Sacked Adamawa SDP Lawmaker To Re-Contest Under KOWA Party

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Mr. Laori Kwamoti, who lost his seat as member representing Numan/Demsa/Lamurde Federal Constituency in Adamawa, is to re-contest the seat under the platform of KOWA party.

 
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kwamoti, who was the only Social Democratic Party (SDP) member in the National Assembly, lost his seat in September last year when the Court of Appeal in Abuja upheld the ruling of the Election Petition Tribunal which nullified his election on the grounds that he was not validly nominated by his party (SDP).

 
The ruling ordered fresh election within 90 days for the seat, and also barred SDP from fielding any candidate in the election.

 
Kwamoti, thereafter, left the SDP and joined KOWA Party.
Confirming the emergence of Kwamoti as its candidate, the Adamawa State KOWA party chairman, Alhaji Saidu Bobboi, said he was endorsed by all delegates at the party’s congress held in Numan on January 7.

 
Bobboi explained that the party candidate in the 2015 general election, Mr Bitrus Bala, who had been given a traditional appointment by his people, was contacted to come and re-contest but he declined.

 

“We have written to Bala as a party and he replied us and even deposed to an affidavit that he has left active politics and is no longer interested.

 
“And you know Bala emerged unopposed as our candidate during the last election, hence, the need for us to conduct fresh primary.

 
“Kwamoti, who defected to our party, was endorsed by all the 48 delegates that participated in our congress held in Numan on January 7,” Bobboi said.

 
He urged the people of the constituency to vote Kwamoti under KOWA party, adding that the party was comfortable with him–based on his track-record as a two-term state lawmaker who sponsored the highest number of bills.
“Kwamoti also served as Deputy Speaker and Acting Speaker in the last Adamawa House of Assembly, where he proved his worth by providing his people with quality representation.” Bobboi said.