JUST IN: Uproar in House of Reps over motion to invite Buhari to explain security situation

Members of the House of Representatives were divided, on Tuesday, during plenary over the necessity to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before them and offer explanations on the true security situation of the country.

An earlier circulated motion had prayed for the invitation of the president.

But the motion eventually moved by Hon. Satomi Ahmed on behalf other 10 Borno State lawmakers, however, prayed the president to, amongst other things, declare a State of Emergency on security matters.

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But the motion as presented did not get the endorsement of another Borno lawmaker, Hon. Ahamdu Jaha, who relied on Order 6, Rule 1 of the House to say that the original motion to which all the lawmakers agreed was to call on the President to address them on the security situation especially in the north east region.

Hon. Jaha, therefore, amended the prayers of the motion. “My amendment is that Mr. President should be invited to come and explain the security situation in the country especially in the north east”, he said.

His amendment got the support of the House.

Speaker of the House, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, however, said it was not necessary, stressing that the State of Emergency prayer sufficed.

This was, however, rejected by the House. Similarly, Majority leader of the House, Hon. Ado Doguwa added his voice, saying that security issues could not be discussed openly, pleading for the understanding of his colleagues not to summon the president.

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His contribution was, however, greeted with a thunderous shout of ‘No’.

Seeing the rising tension and the determination of the lawmakers, the Speaker suddenly called for an Executive Session of the House to resolve the matter. “Hon. Colleagues, I am a little bit disappointed with a lot of these no, no. “This is not the spirit with which we started this 9th assembly.

“We will go into Executive Session to resolve this matter,” he said.

In the meantime, the House was yet to reconvene at the time of filing this report.