The Niger State House of Assembly has insisted that it has the constitutional power to sack the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, NSIEC.
This followed claims by the state chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, that the house has no legal right to dismiss the state chairman of the electoral body, Aminu Baba.
Speaking on the position of the State House of Assembly on the issue in Minna, Malik Madaki Bosso, representing Bosso Constituency said the constitution was unambiguous on the power vested on the legislature to act in such circumstances. He said the embattled state chairman of NSIEC was not fit to continue to head the Commission having confessed before the legislators that,” he was only “answerable and loyal to his principal, the governor” and not to his oath of office to be an impartial umpire”.