Plateau State House of Assembly
By Our Reporter
A crisis of monumental proportion is currently rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly as police fired teargas at the 16 lawmakers who were sacked by the Court of Appeal.
The lawmakers were presented from gaining access to the Assembly complex to participate in plenary of the State House of Assembly by police operatives on Tuesday.
The dismissed lawmakers who are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had vowed to be part of the plenary Plateau Assembly Rayfield Old Government House in Jos. But the place was overrun by police and other security personnel who refused to let them gain access to the House of Assembly Chambers.
It would be recalled that the Court of Appeal in Abuja had in November 2023 invalidated the election of the 16 members of the state House of Assembly on ground that PDP had no structure to nominate them as candidates.
But the lawmakers said the Supreme Court judgement that upheld the election of Governor Caleb Mutfwang by holding that PDP had a structure to nominate him had automatically upturned the decision of the Court of Appeal in their own case.
