The Zamfara State government has debunked the allegations of poor performance made by the parallel assembly members on the Governor Dauda Lawal administration, describing the accusations as baseless.
The lawmakers had in their recent sitting accused the Lawal-led administration of poor performance and running a reckless government through which he allegedly spent or syphoned billions of naira in the name of projects in the state.
However, addressing journalists in Gusau on Saturday, special adviser to the governor on Political Matters, Iliyasu Buhari Maijega, said the allegations by the suspended lawmakers were only a fiction with no iota of truth.
He said there was no existence of parallel assembly in Gusau apart from the present state legislature led by the speaker, Bilyaminu Isma’il Moriki.
“The state legislature under Speaker Bilyaminu Isma’il Moriki remains the only legitimate State House of assembly authorised to carry out legislative duties in the state,” he said.
Maijega queried how members who were suspended for long by the state assembly and having case in court could form a parallel assembly to run activities illegally, stressing that, “the lawmakers’ activities are not only being condemned but they need to be arrested for violating the court order as well as the Nigerian constitution.
According to him, the suspended lawmakers were conducting the illegal sittings somewhere outside Zamfara State which has violated the assembly’s constitutional laws and order.
“The lawmakers have seen the rapid development and achievements being recorded by His Excellency Governor Dauda Lawal within the shortest possible time that is why they are blindly fighting against the progress of Zamfara but will never achieve their aim,” he said.
Maijega therefore called on people of the state to ignore the suspended lawmakers and continue to support and pray for Governor Dauda Lawal administration to move the state forward both socially and economically.
