By Ibrrahim Muhammad
The Speaker of the Zamfara State House of assembly Bilyaminu Ismail Moriki has condermed the action of the Gummi led Assembly faction as illegal and unconstitutioal.He
says Zamfara state has only one assembly where elected lawmakers were authorized to hold their sittings for the interest of the good people of the State.
Speaker Bilyaminu Moriki disclosed this while reacting to formation parallel assembly by10 suspended members of the house to newsmen in his office at the Zamfara state assembly complex in Gusau,
We don’t have faction in Zamfara assembly, those that held illegal sitting recently are not lawmakers hence the sitting was not held in the recognized chamber of the House of assembly and all their decisions are invalid- Moriki reiterated.
The speaker further said that the seat of one of the nine members of the Gummi camp has been declared vacant by the House some time ago therefore he is no longer an elected representative of any Constituency”.
The speaker further said issue of the suspended lawmakers is still in court and the court said that status quo should be maintained pending it’s determination.
On Wednesday, two separate sittings took place. One was led by the embattled Speaker, Hon. Bilyaminu Ismailh Moriki, while the other was held by a faction of 10 lawmakers under Hon. Bashar Aliyu Gummi, who claims to be the rightful Speaker .
