Speaker Of The House Of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila And His Deputy Got Into An Altercation [WATCH]

Femi Gbajabiamila and Ahmed Wase

Femi Gbajabiamila, and his deputy, Hon. Ahmed Wase, got into a verbal altercation on Wednesday, during the plenary session, the speaker of the house of representatives.

When Gbajabiamila urged Hassan Fulata, chair of the house committee on rules and business, to reduce the number of items on the order paper for Thursday so that the plenary wouldn't last over 2 p.m., a dramatic scenario developed.

Gbajabiamila had announced to his coworkers the opening of the National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) permanent campus in Abuja.

"Chairman business and rules let's make the order paper light for tomorrow (Thursday) because we have this it is very important - the permanent site of the NILDS. It is at 2:30. So it will be good if we close by 2 pm," Gbajabiamila said.

Wase then objected to Gbajabiamila's proposal that the plenary be adjourned by 2 o'clock due to the opening of the NILDS building and raised a point of order.

He claimed that lawmakers should be permitted to attend the commissioning if they so choose, but that the house shouldn't be adjourned in order to do so.

"We have lost quite a number of periods of time. Why do we have to shelve a lot of activities that we have just to go and witness the commissioning of a project of NILDS? I want to beg sir that we should do our functions," he said.

"Those who have the interest to go (for the inspiration), they have the right to do (so). But our main primary function in this parliament is to make law and our citizens should be our priority."

The deputy speaker might not fully understand the significance of NILDS, Gbajabiamila retorted.

Perhaps deputy speaker, you don't understand the significance of NILDS the way some of us do. I consider NILDS to be highly significant.

Wase abruptly cut him off, saying he knows "every information and idea of what NILDS is."

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