Court stops Bauchi factional speaker, deputy

A Court sitting in Bauchi has restrained the factional speaker, Bauchi House of Assembly, Kawuwa Shehu Damina and his deputy, Tukur Ibrahim, against parading themselves as speaker and deputy speaker respectively.

Delivering judgement, Justice A.M. Karin Madaki on Friday granted an order of interim conjunction following an application filed by Abubakar Suleiman and 12 other lawmakers.

The application was filed against Bauchi State House of Assembly, Bauchi State Attorney Gebeteql, Kawuwa Shehu Damina and 16 others as defendants, on June 21st, 2019.

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“Having listened to the learned counsel to the plaintiffs/applicants, Ben Ogbuchi, ESQ, Mukhtar A.Usman ESQ, O.P Egbe-Okpenge, ESQ. move the Court in terms of their motion Ex-parte dated and filed on 21/06/2019. I hereby ordered that an order of  interim injunction be and is hereby made, restraining the 3rd and 4th respondents/defendants from parading themselves out and / or parading themselves, purporting to act in whatever manner as the speaker and deputy speaker of the Bauchi  State House of Assembly respectively pending the determination of the motion on notice,” the judge said.

He later adjourned the matter to July, 2nd, 2019 for motion on notice. It would be recall that two speakers emerge at the inauguration of the 9th Bauchi Assembly.

The Nation had earlier reported that 11 members out of 31 elected a new speaker, Suleiman Abubakar from Ningi Constituency.