Afrigather Murktar Bajeh (APC-Okehi), the bulk chief of the Kogi State Home of Meeting, has resigned his place in protest towards the terrorist tag thrown at him and eight different colleagues.
Governor Yahaya Bello of the state had on March 23 branded 9 of the 25 meeting members as terrorists for his or her alleged roles in the course of the March 18 Home of Meeting elections held within the state.
Bello had requested the legislature in a letter to the speaker, Matthew Kolawale, to droop the group of 9, together with the bulk chief, and examine their roles in the course of the meeting election.
However Bajeh, in a letter to the home, knowledgeable them of his resolve to step down from the bulk chief’s place following his disposition with the actions of the governor and the Home.
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“I hereby want to inform this Home that I’m no extra fascinated with being your chief, however have resigned forthwith,” the letter learn.
The speaker, who learn Bajeh’s letter at plenary, requested for feedback on the matter.
At this level, a movement was moved by the deputy speaker, Alfa Momoh-Rabiu, for the nomination of a substitute within the individual of Ahmed Dahiru, to exchange Bajeh as the bulk chief.
The speaker rapidly put a query to members, on the nomination of the chief whip to fill within the vacant place, and the members unanimously accepted Dahiru as their new majority chief owing to his capability and talent to do the job.
The speaker, nevertheless, mentioned that “the Home having accepted the selection of Ahmed Dahiru, member representing Okene II, to fill within the hole left by Muktar Bajeh, we hereby declare him (Dahiru) our new majority chief from at present”.
