Members of the Katsina State House of Assembly have impeached the speaker of the House, Aliyu Sabiu Muduru.
The house has replaced him with Abubakar Yahaya Kusada, member representing Kusada constituency.
Muduru’s removal as the speaker was announced at the plenary of the assembly shortly after an executive session.
The Chief Press Secretary of the House, Abdulrashid Kuraye, who confirmed this, said the lawmakers were silent on the reason why Muduru was ousted.
According to him, Kusada who was sworn-in as the speaker by the deputy clerk of the house, Yusuf Jibrin, dissolved all but the appropriation committee that is currently compiling the state government’s 2017 budget proposals before the assembly, Leadership reports.
Kuraye further stated that the impeachment motion was moved by the house leader and chairman of the assembly appropriation committee, Hambali Farouk, who prayed his colleagues to endorse the deputy speaker, Shehu Dalhatu Tafoki, as interim speaker.
The spokesman of the house, Kuraye, also stated that Kusada emerged the new speaker after the members’ deliberation in the closed door session when Muduru had been asked to vacate his position.
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