The Speaker Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Bathiya Wesley, and 14 other lawmakers have resigned their membership from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
The development came amidst rumours that, in the coming weeks, the Governor of the State, who was elected to two terms on the platform of the PDP, will quit the party and join the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Bathiya Wesley announced the names of the members during the Wednesday plenary session.
Those who renounced their membership of the party, include the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Bathiya Wesley, Deputy Speaker, Mohammed Buba Jidjiwa (Jada- Mbulo), Kefas Calvin (Toungo), Bulus Geoffrey (Leko – Koma) and Haruna Jilantikiri (Madagali).
Others include Kefas Emmanuel, (Song), Ahmed Jingi Belel (Maiha), Hon. Moses Yerima Zah (Michika), Hon. Kate Raymond Mamuno (Demsa), Pwamwakeno Mackondo (Numan), Adun John Alaba(Uba -Gaya), Bulus Kantom (Shelleng), Hon. Musa Mahmud Kallamu (Mayo Belwa), Japhet Hammanjabu (Verre) and Abubakar Abdullahi (Girei).
Reacting to the development, Musa Mahmud Kallamu, who is the Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Information, attributed the mass resignation to the lingering national crisis within the PDP.
Kallamu, however, did not disclose the immediate political direction of the lawmakers following their resignation but affirmed their total loyalty and support to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri.
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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