MEMBERS of the House of Representatives are at daggers drawn with the governors of the 36 states of the federation over the lawmakers’ proposed bill
In a statement issued in Abuja, the spokesman of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, pointedly told the governors that the House of Representatives is not an appendage of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum .
The House also accused the governor of Sokoto State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, of misleading his colleagues in the NGF because of his alleged opposition to the emergence of the Femi Gbajabiamila led leadership of the House, going by the role he played in the 2015 and 2019 elections.
He opposed Tambuwal’s membership of the committee set up by governors to interface with the House, saying the fact that he could not properly guide his colleagues as a former speaker is suggestive of bias on his part. “Against the impression given in the NGF’s communiqué, the House has since last week resolved to subject the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill to a public hearing where Nigerians from all walks of life will have the opportunity to make their inputs towards the draft legislation.
“We do believe that our respected governors are aware of these lawful processes of legislation and should not be misguided by a biased position of a former speaker.“Let it be known that the House of Representatives, and indeed the National Assembly, are independent of the control of any state governor or former Speaker, except if we want to change that now.
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