By Prince Sekat, Jos
The publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Plateau state Slyvanus Namang, has said the former Speaker of the Plateau state House of Assembly, Mr Abok Ayuba is under investigation.
Mr Namang exclusively told Freelance Reporters correspondent in Jos via a telephone interview on Wednesday, when we sought to know development on the impeachment saga surrounding the state legislature.
According to the APC spokesperson, the new speaker of the Plateau state House of Assembly, Mr Sanda Yakubu resumed office and has set-up two committees to investigate Mr Abok Ayuba on financial embezzlement and illegal possession of the legislature’s mace, which represents authority of the parliament.
Mr Namang refuted claims that Plateau state House of Assembly has two Speakers. “There are no two speakers at the state Assembly, we only recognize Rt Hon Sanda Yakubu as the Speaker of the Plateau state House of Assembly. All we know is that the former Speaker, Hon Nuhu Abok Ayuba has been impeached, and he remains impeached,” he stated.
Reacting on the factional APC Secretariat in Jos, Namang revealed that the said members who claimed to have been running a parallel secretariat of the party have been shown the way out of APC.
He described the group as detractors saying, “they are only out to destabilize our party (APC) we know where they belong, They should go there.”
He insisted that there was no factional APC secretariat in Plateau state.
According to the Plateau APC spokesman, the said factional office is a fiction, it dose not exist. “They have no fixed address as an office, they exist only in the media, it’s a mobile office,” he said.
Freelance Reporters can report that the factional APC secretariat was located at Kalwa House, but security operatives were sent to shutdown the office and remove the party flags.
The APC Publicity Secretary, authoritatively noted that the six persons who claimed to have created factional APC secretariat in the state have been suspended from the party by their ward chairmen.
“As far as we are concerned, the Ishaya Itse led group have been suspended from our party right from the ward level by their ward chairmen,” he noted.
Commenting on the recent five man APC Appeal Panel visit who were in Jos to access and receive possible complaints from aggrieved members of the party, following disputes that arose from the APC State Congresses, Mr Namang said that the committee had concluded its assignment in the state and returned to the national Secretariat, though the out come of their findings haven’t been made public.
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