The Taraba Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Alhaji Hassan Ardo, on Thursday
expressed concern over the reluctance of the state
House of Assembly to elect a speaker.
Ardo, who spoke with newsmen in Jalingo said the
development had stalled the assembly from sitting to
consider the 2016 budget proposal submitted to it by
Gov. Darius Ishaku.

It will be recalled that the Court of Appeal sitting in
Yola, Adamawa had in Dec 2015, nullified the election
of the Speaker, Mr Abel Diah of the PDP,
representing Mbanga state constituency and ordered
supplementary polls in eight polling units within 90
days.


The APC chairman expressed shock at the attitudes
of the members of the assembly for keeping quiet
and suspending sitting instead of electing a new
speaker to keep the institution running.

“I am so shocked at what is happening at Taraba
assembly, for over four weeks, the house has been
without a speaker and nothing is going on,” he said.
Ardo disclosed that the state Working Committee of
the APC would soon summon the seven of its
members in the assembly to explain why they were
working against the state.

“The working committee of the APC in the state will
soon summon lawmakers on its platform to explain
their roles in what is happening at the assembly.”