{"id":19087,"date":"2024-02-26T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zamfara-assembly-impeached-speaker-presides-over-plenary-with-8-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:03:48","slug":"zamfara-assembly-impeached-speaker-presides-over-plenary-with-8-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/zamfara-assembly-impeached-speaker-presides-over-plenary-with-8-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara Assembly: Impeached Speaker presides over plenary with 8 lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The impeached Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Bilyaminu Ismail, on Monday presided over a plenary session with only eight members, amid tight security.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that on Friday, February 23, 2034, seventeen lawmakers impeached Ismail and elected Bashar Aliyu Gummi as the new Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly was thereafter adjourned indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Gummi and the 17 lawmakers that elected him to replace Ismail were absent at Monday\u2019s proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers who were present at Monday\u2019s extraordinary plenary described the action of majority of their colleagues as unlawful and illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The Ismail-led faction is also requesting the suspension of the 17 lawmakers, saying that their action has a political undertone and had nothing to do with the issue of insecurity, as they had claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the eight lawmakers are accusing the 17 members of the House of Assembly of receiving money from saboteurs to carry out the impeachment, which they described as unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>Zamfara Assembly: Impeached Speaker presides over plenary with 8 lawmakers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impeached Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Bilyaminu Ismail, on Monday presided over a plenary session with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11328],"tags":[2358,180,28],"class_list":["post-19087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-zamfara-assembly","tag-assembly","tag-news","tag-zamfara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}