Jigawa House of Assembly Impeaches Speaker

Speaker of the Jigawa State House of Assembly, Idris Garba has been sacked, the third speaker to lose his post in recent days across Nigeria.

Members of the house impeached him this morning and elected Alhaji Isa Idris as new speaker.

Idris represents Gwaram Constituency.

The Deputy Speaker, Alhaji Ahmed Garba presided over the sitting attended by 23 members.

NAN reports that the Clerk of the house, Alhaji Hussaini Ali earlier announced that he received an impeachment notice signed by 25 of the 30 assembly members, and which he read on the floor of the house.

Ali disclosed that members of the assembly impeached the speaker due to alleged high handedness and abuse of power.

The Deputy Speaker read the impeachment notice on the floor of the house, and confirmed the number of members that signed the notice.

Garba said that 25 of the 30-member assembly that endorsed the impeachment notice showed that it met the constitutional requirement of two thirds to impeach any of its principal officers.