The impeachment of the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Barrister Adamu Usman, on May 5 has been declared unconstitutional, null and void by a Minna high court.
The court also ruled that the lawmakers erred in law by removing the Speaker contrary to the provisions of the law.
Barrister Adamu Usman was impeached by 14 out of the 27 lawmakers in the House of assembly on May 5, 2015 a few days to the end of the 7th Niger state house of assembly.
He was replaced by Alhaji Isa Kawu who held the position till the end of the 7th assembly.
Consequently, Usman and two others had dragged the assembly and 22 others before the court seeking its declaration that apart from the action of the assembly being unconstitutional, the decisions taken by the defendants were of no effect.
Also, the plaintiff asked the court to declare that his ‘the rights, privileges and interests were not affected by the purported impeachment’.
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