Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yussuff Sulaimon Lasun has described recent media reports of discord between him and the Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara as a figment of the writer’s imagination.
Lasun in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Wole Oladimeji, said “The House is constitutionally empowered to amend its rules as it deems fit and the process is aimed at enhancing the activities of the House.
“The eighth assembly set up an ad hoc committee to review its rule, inaugurated by the speaker with the deputy speaker in attendance and once the review is concluded, the report is expected to be presented to the House for robust debate before it becomes the new House Rule for the eighth assembly.
“It should be stated clearly that this has not been done, so the rule being referred to as stripping the deputy speaker of its function by the speaker is a figment of their imagination of the writer.”