FROM LEFT: DEPUTY SPEAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YUSUF LASUN and SPEAKER YAKUBU DOGARA
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun, on Thursday, August 20, 2015, said there was no rift between himself and the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara.
According to him, reports that the Speaker was planning to strip him of his duties as punishment for some unmentioned infractions was not true and should be discarded.
In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Wole Oladimeji, the Deputy Speaker said the issue was conjectured by enemies who want to cause division between the presiding officers of the House of Representatives.
“The office of the Deputy Speaker has read with disgust another attempt to sow seed of discord in the House of Representatives by their phantom claim that the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, is stripping the Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yussuff Sulaimon Lasun, of the statutory duties of the deputy speaker.
“This report is not only a conjecture emanating from minds of the usual ‘our report or inside sources.’
“While the office is disinclined to reacting to ill-intentioned reports promoted by external forces, we owe it to the unsuspecting public to clarify issues and let the sponsors stew in their concoction of lies.
“The public should, therefore, discount this report and await the renewed zeal of members to serve Nigeria upon resumption under the leadership of Speaker Yakubu Dogara and ably assisted by the deputy speaker,” the statement read in part.
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