Lawmakers Have Dropped Politics To Partner Gov Mutfwang For Devpt – Plateau Speaker, Dewan

The speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Gabriel Dewan has praised his colleagues from across the four parties in the legislature for forging a companionship with Governor Caleb Mutfwang towards rebuilding the state.

Speaking in an interview, Speaker Dewan said that the four parties in the assembly namely, the YPP, APC, Labour and PDP have forged an alliance towards putting away their political differences in the interest of the state.

He said:

“There is nothing like political parties in the Assembly. When you leave there, you fall back to your Party and discuss your Party affairs. We don’t discuss political parties in the Assembly during our plenary or legislative sessions so the relationship is cordial. Remember that before we were elected, we were first sons and daughters of Plateau State so there are relationships that exist among us as colleagues.

“Political Parties may divide us but we are one. I am from the YPP, I have a brother in the Labour Party and other members in APC. That doesn’t make us enemies or opposition, it is just we have pre-election and post-election interests.

“When it’s time for election everybody struggles to get power or get himself into political office and that is why you get divided but when the election is over, it is about service to the people; discharging your responsibilities that you were voted for so we must bury the differences that we encountered during pre-election and adopt the post-election interest for the good of citizens.”

On the relationship with Governor Mutfwang, he said:

“Our relationship is very wonderful. I can tell you without mincing words that if there is any Assembly in this country that is enjoying a cordial relationship with the Executive, Plateau will be one. The day we inaugurated the nine members, the first port of call was to visit the governor and inform him of the development.

“You saw how he embraced us, ordinarily, it is the duty of the House to embark on a retreat to induct the new Members, but the Governor out of his magnanimity said he would partner with us.”

Continuing, Speaker Dewan said:

“Some months back, the Assembly erupted in crisis because of political party interest but the Governor did not walk into the Complex to shut it down or decide to stop the Assembly from carrying out its duties as we have seen elsewhere. He can only advise us when he hears of anything, he will call and ask what is happening and he will advise without interfering.

“There is a clear separation of powers in the State but there is a cooperation, a partnership for the interest of the Plateau. To understand that things are moving well, you can see that the members attend the Governor’s functions to give him support. In some Assemblies, if the governor is having a function, you barely see members attending. That is a signal that all is not well but ours is not the case.

“Plateau State has four political parties in government, the Governor is from the PDP, I am from the YPP, some of my Members are from the APC, we also have the Labour Party, and we have no rancour because we have all agreed that the interest of Plateau supersedes all other interests. Before political parties came, there was Plateau and we shall protect the heritage of Plateau and hand it over to the generations coming after us.”

“Before us there were members, after us there will be members so there is no need to bring down the roof because of political Party differences that will last for about four years. The relationship between the State Assembly in Plateau and the Executive is very cordial and wonderful and I must give it to the Governor for his maturity, his understanding, we need to be proud of him.”

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