The Adamawa State House of Assembly has rejected the request by an All Progressives Congress, APC, youth pressure group, Black Cap Movement Revolution, to probe allegation of certificate forgery against Governor Muhammadu Jibrilla.
The group had in a letter addressed to the Speaker by its Chairman, Mr. Mustafa Ribadu, urged the Assembly to investigate the allegation which, he said, has been in the media.
The lawmakers made the resolution on Monday after a plenary.
The assembly resolved not to treat the letter of complaint by the youth group, noting that the matter is before a court of law.
Presiding over plenary, Speaker of the House, Kabiru Mijinyawa, said the House had received the letter of request for the probe, but that the House Standing Rules do not allow it to dabble into matters that are before a competent court of law.
He said: “By the House standing rules, we cannot discuss anything that is before the court.”
The House, also at the plenary, invited the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Fatima Atiku and other principal officials of the Ministry of Health, including the Accountant-General of the state, Augustina Wandamiya, to appear before it on Thursday.
The House said the invitation of the officers was over nonpayment of six month salaries of some recruited health workers.
The House also resolved to constitute an ad hoc committee, under the chairmanship of the Majority Leader, Hassan Barguma (APC-Hong), to probe the N2 billion Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, agricultural loan.
CBN granted the loan to the state through the Adamawa Agricultural Development and Investment Ltd., AADIL.
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