Aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) members of Plateau House of Assembly have cried out to President Bola Tinubu to prevail on the Speaker, Gabriel Dewan, to allow them to take their seats.
  
Led by MaiyakiBala, the 16 aggrieved lawmakers, who briefed reporters after a closed-door parley with the Abdullahi Ganduje-led National Working Committee (NWC) at the national secretariat of APC party in Abuja, described the refusal by Dewan to inaugurate them as an affront on the 1999 Constitution.
  
They stated: “The wanton and unchecked immolation of democracy on the Plateau portends a dangerous precedent for this civilised form of governance. There is nowhere in our jurisprudence that the rule of might is allowed to replace the rule of law.
  
“We cannot be subjected to the whims and caprices of individuals or groups under whatever guise. We cannot sit by and watch the continued desecration of our grundnorm (1999 Constitution) or even the effrontery to disobey the orders of the court with impunity and at the same time claim to be democrats. ”
  
They called on Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas; Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to direct “the insidious and recalcitrant” Speaker of Plateau Assembly, reportedly on recess for about five months, to inaugurate them without further delay to avert any breakdown of law and order.
 
They also called on the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK) and all lovers of democracy all over the world to bring pressure to bear on all the institutions of governance and democracy to wade into the issue in the interest of democratic rule in the country.
  
Also, they called on the Conference of Speakers of Houses of Assembly and the Conference of former Speakers of Houses of Assembly to save the state from descending to a state of anarchy.