CPC wants court to dissolve Adamawa Assembly

THE Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Adamawa State chapter, has concluded arrangement to file a case on Monday, next week for the dissolution of the 25-member Adamawa State House of Assembly.While addressing journalists yesterday in Yola, the state chairman of CPC and former member of the House, Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri, saidthat the House failed to meet the constitutional provisions of sitting for 180 days yearly.He alleged that the House sat for only 91 days from June last year to June this year, pointing out that the lawmakers lacked any constitutional powers to operate again, since they abused the constitution and their oath of office.In a reaction, Speaker of the House, Ahmed Umaru Fintri, maintained that the House sat for 91 days in the chambers of the Assembly and pointed out that committee meetings were also included in the 180 days stipulated by the constitution.On the controversial amendment of the Establishment and Administration law 2000 number four to create room for government toconstitute an electoral college to elect a caretaker committee for councils, the Speaker said that the bill was for interest of the public.He said that the aim of the bill was to ensure that there was no vacuum at the local council level in a situation where thegovernor failed to conduct elections as at when due.However, the CPC boss said that the action of the House to pass a bill to clash with the provisions of the constitution of the FederalRepublic of Nigeria was a gross abuse of law and creation of monarchy in a democratic dispensation.Waziri, who urgedGovernor Murtala Nyako, not to sign the bill into law, said that the bill was antithetical to the growth of democracy andthat it would breed dictatorship at the local council level.The former lawmaker insisted that his party would pursue the court case to dissolve the House to the Supreme Court to ensure that the rule of law takes its rightful place in the state.
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