 |
| Hon. Aniekan Bassey |
The Member Representing Uruan State
Constituency in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Hon. Aniekan Bassey has
stated why he didn’t emerge as the Speaker of the assembly after the Court of
Appeal sacked immediate past Speaker, Hon. Aniekan Uko. In an interview with
newsmen recently in his office, the businessman cum politician said the issue
of him emerging Speaker of AKHA was purely speculative. Read below some
excerpts from the interview:
“The issue of me being a Speaker was
speculative. People thought since the Speakership position was zoned to Uyo Senatorial
District, that I should emerge the speaker. So it was based on assumption that
Uyo Federal Constituency should produce the speaker because the immediate past
speaker was from Uyo Federal Constituency (Ibesikpo Asutan to be precise). People
thought either Uruan, Uyo or Nsit Attai should produce the Speaker. But speakership
is more than that. You have to look at capacity and you have to look at what we
are facing at this particular time. I believe that the Speaker that we have is
the best for the moment. He has the capacity. He is a former Students Union
president and former Speaker of the Nigerian Youth Parliament. He has the
capacity to lead us at this time.
