This is just as the speaker, Kabiru Mijinyawa, on Thursday removed the Chief Whip, Hassan Barguma, and the Deputy Chief Whip, Abubakar Isa.
Mijinyawa announced the removal at the House plenary.
The speaker also axed Barguma as chairman of the House Committee on Information, and reassigned him to be in charge of committee on Internally Displaced Persons.
The House Deputy Speaker was subsequently appointed chairman of the Committee on Information, while the speaker as vice chairman.
Other standing committees whose chairmen were removed are Solid Minerals, Youth and Sports, Commerce, Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives.
Reacting to the development, Barguma said though it came to him as a surprise, he accepted his removal in good faith as part of politics of the House.
“I am not in the House to become Chief Whip, I am in the house to represent my people of Hong constituency. A legislature is not judged by leadership position he occupies in the house but by laws he made and the representation he gave his people,” Barguma told Premium Times.
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