APC lawmakers sit in Ado Ekiti, suspend speaker, PDP lawmakers The ousted speaker of the Ekiti state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Adewale Omirin,on Friday said that the 19 All Progressives Congress members of the assembly held a plenary in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, and suspended the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Dele Olugbemi, and the six lawmakers loyal to him. They all belong to the ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party. Adewale, who did not disclose where the sitting was held, however, said that it was a normal sitting presided over by him, with the mace of the assembly in place. But no journalist was at the sitting. Omirin, who disclosed this to journalists on the telephone, promised that he would invite journalists to cover subsequent sittings. At the sitting, Omirin said the lawmakers also nullified all legislative activities carried out by the PDP lawmakers, including the receipt and consideration of the 2015 Appropriation Bill presented by Governor Ayo Fayose on Monday before the seven PDP lawmakers. They also resolved to relocate the sittings of the House to the campus of the Ekiti State University, citing the “situation of the state” in the last one month and the taking over of the Assembly complex by thugs and miscreants. The embattled speaker said the APC lawmakers also voted in favour of local government autonomy in the ongoing constitutional amendment being carried out in the country. The Assembly also voted for the autonomy of the legislature. Other constitutional amendments that received the legislative approval of the lawmakers are Section 8 of the Constitution, which confers citizenship rights and privileges on Nigerians anywhere they are living in the country. Olugbemi and the six PDP lawmakers had impeached Omirin and his deputy, Hon. Adetunji Orisalade, on November 20 and received the 2015 budget estimate from Governor Ayo Fayose on December 15.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:06:41 +0000
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