BREAKING: Plateau Speaker Impeached Amid Corruption Allegations

Speaker Plateau State House of Assembly Hon Abok Ayuba has been impeached, NewsDirect can report. 

Abok was impeached on Thursday morning after a vote of no confidence by over 18 members of the assembly.

Meanwhile Rt Hon. Yakubu Sanda representing Pengana constituency in the state assembly has been elected Speaker by the members.

Recall that a group known as the Youths Rights Against Corruption (YRAC) had petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), accusing Nuhu of financial misappropriation.

The group also alleged that he had been abusing his office.

The Executive Director of the group, Comrade Abednego Musa, in the petition titled “Petition Against Plateau State House of Assembly Speaker, Nuhu Abok Ayuba On Gross Financial Misconduct, Criminal Breach Of Public Trust And Abuse Of Office,” had asked Nuhu to immediately step down from his position, pending the completion of the EFCC investigation.

The petition addressed to the chairman of the EFCC, said, “Further to a popular demand by some members of the public to our office, this petition is written to acquaint your agency EFCC, with the gross financial misconduct and the abuse of office being perpetrated by the Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Honorable Nuhu Abok Ayuba, for a thorough investigation so as to avert a further bleeding of the public treasury under his care and restore sanity in the functioning of the state’s legislative establishment.”