The Adamawa State House of Assembly has denied claims that its newly passed law for the creation of additional chiefdoms is designed to remove the Lamido of Adamawa as chairman of the state’s traditional council.
Addressing journalists on Friday, the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Alhaji Musa Mahmud, representing Mayo-Belwa Constituency, dismissed the allegations as baseless and rooted in ignorance of the law’s provisions.
He said, “Section 17 stated that there shall be Adamawa State Council of Chiefs with areas of jurisdiction and authority.
“Section 18 stated: The council shall consist of the following members second class chiefs, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Chieftaincy Affairs as secretary, and ALGON chairman as a member.
“Section 18, sub 2 stated: That the Lamido of Adamawa shall be the chairman of the Adamawa State Traditional Council.”
Mahmud pointed out that the new item introduced in the bill was the creation of zonal traditional councils, the North, Central, and Southern traditional councils.
“It is the zonal traditional councils that the law stipulated that the chairman should be rotational, citing Section 29, Sub-sec 1, the chairman of the zonal traditional councils shall be rotational,” he said.
He urged the people of the state to disregard the fake information being peddled around by merchants of fake news.
