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The Speaker Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Bathiya Wesley, has charged the newly constituted Special and Standing Committees to work hard in order to deliver on their mandate. Rt. Hon. Bathiya gave the charge while inaugurating the Special and House Standing Committees at the assembly committee room on Tuesday. He tasked them to work hard in order to deliver on your mandate as Chairmen and Committee members, saying that the committees play a significant role in the process of lawmaking as bills and resolutions are referred to them for scrutiny. He appealed them to create a synergy between their committees and relevant ministries, departments and agencies as they oversight on their activities for the progress of the state. He told them that anytime committees are constituted, they are expected to be inaugurated by the Speaker of the House in line with the provision of the law. Responding on behalf of the newly inaugurated committees, the Chairman House Committee on Informatio...

The Senator Adamawa Central Senatorial District, Aminu Iya Abbas has urged the National Assembly Petitions Tribunal to dismiss petition filed against him by erstwhile Senator Abdul-Aziz Nyako. News Platform  Senator Iya Abbas, asked the tribunal to dismiss the suit instituted against him while adopting his final written address on Monday at the resumed sitting of the tribunal in Yola. The petitioner and the former Sen. Abdul-Aziz Nyako of the APC sued Iya Abbas who clinched the senatorial ticket under the platform of the PDP. Already, the three man tribunal has reserved the judgement in suit, and said that the date will be communicated to the parties involved in the matter. In a motion on notice filed on the 14th May, 2023, Senator Iya Abbas urged the tribunal to dismiss the petition for being an abuse of court process, incompetent as well as for lack of jurisdiction. Sen. Abbas through his counsel, M. A. Magaji (SAN) who was represented by Abubakar Saad (esq) also asked the tribun...

Adamawa State House of Assembly on Monday urged the State Emergency Management Agency(ADSEMA) and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) respectively to provide relief materials to the communities affected by flooding. The assembly presided by its Speaker, Rt. Hon. Bathiya Wesley, urged the agencies to provide relief materials to the victims of recent flooding particularly in Lamurde and Fufure as well as Yola South, Yola North, Girei, Demsa and Numan LGAs. The assembly's resolution was sequel to a matter of public importance sponsored by the member representing Lamurde constituency, Hon. Bauna Myandasa. Earlier, Hon. Bauna briefed his colleagues on the recent flooding and how it affected some communities in his political ward, explaining that the natural disaster submerged farmlands and a school. Hon. Bauna urged the assembly to impress on the ADSEMA and NEMA to as a matter of urgency supply relief materials to the affected communities to ameliorate their suffering. In his co...

The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday, adjourned for judgment, a petition filed by the Rev. Amos Kumai Yohanna, challenging the election of Senator Ishaku Abbo Cliff. The Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Aloysius O. Okuma, reserved the judgment for a later day to be communicated to parties after the petitioner and respondents had adopted their final written addresses. Rev. Amos Yohanna, who contested election under the People's Democratic Party (PDP), dragged the incumbent Sen. Ishaku Abbo, APC and INEC before tribunal challenging the election which brought him to power. In his petition marked :EPT/AD/SEN/02/2023, Hon. Rev Amos Yohanna, alleged that the election of Sen. Abbo is invalid by reasons of corrupt practices or non compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.  He averred that Sen. Abbo was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes cast during the election, alleging over voting at various polling units, false en...

(Response to Ahmad Sajoh' s piece)  Ahmad Sajoh in an attempt to derail the gullible and to also sustain their followership on false hope wrote an article where he mentioned in part that  "Talking about what happened must begin from the evaluation of the matter before the judges. Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani has gone to the tribunal to challenge the declaration of Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri as Governor on grounds that  such declaration does not meet the minimum legal requirements as prescribed in the electoral act and guidelines of the electoral umpire... The Fintiri team felt otherwise and even went further to consider her submission as unqualified to be given a hearing at the tribunal. BOOM. The tribunal said no"the petition deserves to be heard and heard to the full value of its merits " Well it is said that ignorance of the law is not an excuse, it appears Sajoh is not the least knowledgeable  on court proceedings if  not, he would have known that The moti...

(Response to Ahmad Sajoh' s Piece) By George Kushi  Ahmad Sajoh in an attempt to derail the gullible and to also sustain their followership on false hope wrote an article where he mentioned in part that  "Talking about what happened must begin from the evaluation of the matter before the judges. Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani has gone to the tribunal to challenge the declaration of Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri as Governor on grounds that  such declaration does not meet the minimum legal requirements as prescribed in the electoral act and guidelines of the electoral umpire... The Fintiri team felt otherwise and even went further to consider her submission as unqualified to be given a hearing at the tribunal. BOOM. The tribunal said no"the petition deserves to be heard and heard to the full value of its merits " Well it is said that ignorance of the law is not an excuse, it appears Sajoh is not the least knowledgeable  on court proceedings if  not, he would have kno...

(Response to Ahmad Sajoh' s Piece)  By George Kushi Ahmad Sajoh in an attempt to derail the gullible and to also sustain their followership on false hope wrote an article where he mentioned in part that  "Talking about what happened must begin from the evaluation of the matter before the judges. Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani has gone to the tribunal to challenge the declaration of Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri as Governor on grounds that  such declaration does not meet the minimum legal requirements as prescribed in the electoral act and guidelines of the electoral umpire... The Fintiri team felt otherwise and even went further to consider her submission as unqualified to be given a hearing at the tribunal. BOOM. The tribunal said no"the petition deserves to be heard and heard to the full value of its merits " Well it is said that ignorance of the law is not an excuse, it appears Sajoh is not the least knowledgeable  on court proceedings if  not, he would have kno...