The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, revealed on Sunday, June 28, that a court process instituted by 30 All Progressives Congress members prevented him from acting on a letter from the party’s leadership.
The party had sent a letter to the Speaker, in which four principal officers were nominated for the lower chambers of the National Assembly.
The House session would end in chaos on Thursday, June 25, as the lawmakers could not agree on the selection of their principal officers.
A statement issued in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Turaki Hassan, quoted Dogara as stating his reasons for disobeying his party’s directives;
“Assuming they win the case and the court now rules that that directive of the party breaches the provision of the constitution relating to the federal character. So, do we now begin to see somebody vacating his office or principal position so that we can accommodate the court’s ruling?”
“That was why I had to call on the Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Media, (Mr. Sani Zoro), to apologise to Nigerians. I have accepted responsibility for everything that transpired and we apologise to the nation.”
“I want to plead that the problems we have in the country now are not conventional and so conventional wisdom cannot solve them. We need divine wisdom.”
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