Seven lawmakers of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) out of the 26-
member Ekiti State House of Assembly
yesterday passed into law N80.94billion
budget for the 2015 fiscal year.
Speaking with newsmen after the
sitting, the factional speaker of the
House, Hon Dele Olugbemi, said the
additional N17million in the
N80.77billion presented to the House
by Governor Ayodele Fayose would be
used for some renovation works in the
Assembly.
He explained that all the three arms of
government, the Executive, Judiciary
and Legislature were fully involved to
ensure financial balancing in the
budget proposal.
Meanwhile, the 19 lawmakers of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) led by the
speaker, Dr Adewale Omirin, have
described the passage of the
appropriation bill into law as illegal and
an exercise in futility.
The lawmakers, who held a plenary in
Ado-Ekiti about two weeks ago, where
the seven PDP lawmakers were
suspended and resolutions on the
autonomy of the local governments
and House of Assembly, among others,
were passed and sent to the National
Assembly, said all actions of the seven
lawmakers cannot stand.
Speaking further on the passage of the
budget, Olugbemi added that all
ministries, departments and agencies
of government were given a fair share
of the state’s resources to bring
unprecedented development to the
people.
Journalists and party leaders, who were
already seated at the assembly’s
gallery, were however, walked out of
the Chamber to allow the plenary to be
held behind closed doors.
The leader of Government Business,
Hon Samuel Ajibola, who raised
objection about the heavy presence of
non-members at the sitting he
described as special and one that
needed to be held behind closed door,
said they were protected by laws to
hold a secret session, if they so desired,
adding “we are not flouting the laws if
we ask non-members to walk out”.
At this point, the sergeant-at-arms and
other internal security staff of the
Assembly ordered those affected
including journalists to take their leave.
Olugbemi, while consenting to the
objection, said the House can design
the kind of sitting it desires, depending
on circumstances. “The action we took
was as a result of exigency of time. The
House can design the model under
which it will conduct its sitting”.
On the size of the budget, Olugbemi
said the House of Assembly’s
Committee on Appropriation did a
thorough job, adding that this is the
first time the budgetary estimate
submitted at the Assembly would be
increased since 2011.
Omirin in a statement by his special
adviser on m0edia, Wole Olujobi,
described yesterday’s exercise held
behind closed doors as one in the
series of comic tales by farcical
politicians holding the reins of
governance in Ekiti State.
“It is sad that Governor Ayodele Fayose
has turned Ekiti State House of
Assembly to a safari Park where the
macho posturing of misguided adults
in G7 is being masterfully manipulated
by this accomplished choreographer of
political sophistry.
“In the sitting they themselves knew
was illegal, they chased away print and
electronic reporters that got wind of
their plan to sit.
“They held the illegal meeting with no
in-house correspondents in attendance
as they were also chased out. In their
wisdom, they, as usual, reportedly had
Lere Olayinka and Hon Dele Olugbemi’s
personal assistant in attendance.
“To them, the machination is yielding
astounding results that confound and
defy logic. Clearly, this is illegal,
unconstitutional and another toad-for-
the-dinner sitting that responsible
Nigerians know quite well does not
have a place in our legal statute.
“The Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria is not a cocktail of
brawn and sinews, neither does it
condone the boisterous essence of
gangsterism,” the speaker said, adding
that Ekiti State had grown beyond the
motor park antics of pretenders to the
throne of honourable members of the
parliament.
Omirin insisted that APC members
would continue to apply laws in
whatever they do, stressing that APC
members swore at inauguration to
protect the sanctity of the Nigerian
constitution.
“As far as the constitution of Nigeria is
concerned, the ‘Assembly’ led by
Olugbemi is an illegal body that has no
place in law. APC lawmakers shall
continue in the path of constitutionality
for our errant and misguided
colleagues to know that it is only
through law, truth and honour that we
can take Ekiti State to the heights that
will be a pride to all our people,” Omirin
said.



SOURCE; leadership.ng/news/398956/ekiti-7-pdp-lawmakers-pass-2015-budget-behind-closed-doors

I'm with you guys, develeopment needs to go on no matter whose ox is gored.

Is this what PDP is teaching Nigeria Youth . 7 >19.

Shame to Fayoye
Shame to GEJ
Shame to PDP