NewsNigeriaPoliticsNasarawa State House Of Assembly Gets Two Speakers

The political face-off generated tension in the Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Tuesday leading to the emergence of two parallel speakers.

Thirteen members-elect who held their inaugural sitting at the complex of the State House of Assembly along Lafia Shendam Road elected Daniel Ogazi as speaker.

At a separate sitting by 11 other members-elect held at the State Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development, the members re–elected Speaker of the Sixth Assembly, Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi.

The oath of office was administered to him by the acting clerk of the House, Mr. Ibrahim Musa.

After his inauguration, Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule and his deputy, Emmanuel Akanbe received Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi at the Government House in Lafia.

Meanwhile, security agencies have barricaded the entrance to the main gate to the Assembly complex.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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