The All Progressive Congress (APC) Northwest Youths Alliance for Good Governance took to the streets in Dutse Jigawa state capital on Tuesday against the imposition of Honourable Idris Garba Kareka as the Speaker of the 8th state Assembly.
The protesters who marched from the state Assembly to Government House Dutse, carrying placards with the inscription, “New Governor, New Speaker, we don’t want Kareka to emerge as Speaker, Kareka, we don’t support your speakership again”.
However, this is coming at the time when the citizens of the state were expecting good result spanning from the stakeholders’ meeting said to have been held in the nearby Kano on who would emerge as Speaker.
The source at the Kano meeting told our reporter that the attendants resisted the proposed imposition of the former Speaker, Idris Garba Kareka to continue piloting the affairs of the House for the next four years.
Blueprint learnt that the sspeakership was already zoned to the Southwest, and those contesting included Haruna Aliyu Dangyatin from Miga state constituency and Ishaq Tasi’u Soja from Dutse state constituency.
To this end the embattled Speaker could not be reached for comment as his phone was switched off.
Speaking, the state chairman of APC, Aminu Sani Gumel who confirmed the development, however, did not give details.
“I heard that some people protested to Government House and House of Assembly”, he stressed.
While the Assembly Clerk, Musa Abubakar, said he had not received any communication from above for the speakership election.
“We shall inform the legislatures on the need to allow internal cohesion to prevail in their quest for new leadership”, he said.
