Leadership tussle rocks Osun assembly as members-elect drag speaker, clerk to court


From Lateef Dada, Osogbo

The leadership crisis is currently rocking the Osun State House of Assembly as two members-elect from Ife North and Osogbo state constituencies, Oyewusi Abidemi and Lawal Rasheed, approached the court to challenge the rules mandating the speaker to emerge from making the ranking members.

The plaintiffs joined the assembly, speaker Timothy Owoeye, and clerk of the house, as respondents in the originating summons filed before the state high court.

They want the respondents to appear in the court within 21 days to explain whether the provision of Rule 4 (a) of the Osun State House of Assembly Legislative Standing Rule to the effect that the Speaker of the House Assembly shall be from among the ranking members-elect of the House of Assembly is not contrary to the provision of section 92(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), therefore unconstitutional, null and void.

The respondents stated that upon the determination of the question, they shall be seeking a declaration that the provision of Rule 4(a) of the Osun State House of Assembly Legislative Standing Rules is inconsistency with the provision of section 92(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as
amended), thereby unconstitutional null, and void.


The plaintiffs maintained that the rules of the House are inconsistent with the provision of the Constitution.

They submitted that they have the right, being members elected to represent their constituents, to participate in the speaker and deputy speaker of the House of Assembly at their inauguration which would be done in a matter of days from now.

https://sunnewsonline.com/leadership-tussle-rocks-osun-assembly-as-members-elect-drag-speaker-clerk-to-court/?amp

Gang of thieves

Barrister fergie001, what’s your take on this one. I guess the “inconsistency” technicality the new lawmakers elect drag in the court justice will never hold any water. People are asking why they don’t approach the court before they contest for the elective positions in their constituency? Need your input on it.

Osun speakership race: Lawmakers-elect challenge standing rule

By Shina Abubakar

SOME lawmakers-elect in the Osun State House of Assembly, yesterday, challenged the rule of the Assembly allowing only ranking members to vie for the speakership of the House.

The lawmakers-elect, including Lawal Rasheed, representing Osogbo Constituency, and Oyewusi Akinyode of Ife-North Constituency, have dragged the House of Assembly, the Speaker, Timothy Owoeye, and the Clerk of the House, before a State High Court.

The two lawmakers, in an originating, summon, want the court to declare Rule 4(a) of the Osun State House of Assembly Legislative Standing Rule null and void for running contrary to the provision of section 92(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).

It reads: “Whether the provision of Rule 4 (a) of the Osun State House of Assembly Legislative Standing Rule to the effect that the Speaker of the House Assembly shall be from among the ranking members-elect of the House of Assembly is not contrary to the provision of section 92(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), therefore unconstitutional, null and void.

“And upon the determination of the question, the plaintiffs shall be seeking the following reliefs at the hearing:

“A declaration that the provision of Rule 4(a) of the Osun State House of Assembly Legislative Standing Rules is inconsistency with the provision of section 92(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), thereby unconstitutional null and void.

“An order of injunction restraining the defendants from enforcing or applying the provision of Rule 4(a) of the Osun State House of Assembly Legislative Standing Rules same being inconsistent with the provision of 92(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).”
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/04/osun-speakership-race-lawmakers-elect-challenge-standing-rule/

Part II
House of Assembly of a State

A - Composition and Staff of House of Assembly

90. There shall be a House of Assembly for each of the States of the Federation.

91. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly of a State shall consist of three or four times the number of seats which that State has in the House of Representatives divided in a way to reflect, as far as possible nearly equal population:
Provided that a House of Assembly of a State shall consist of not less than twenty-four and not more than forty members.

92. (1) There shall be a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of a House of Assembly who shall be elected by the members of the House from among themselves.

(2) The Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly shall vacate his office -

(a) if he ceases to be a member of the House of Assembly otherwise than by reason of the dissolution of the House;

(b) When the House first sits after any dissolution of House; or

(c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of House of Assembly by the votes of not less than two-third majority of the members of the House.

93. There shall be a Clerk to a House of Assembly and such other staff as may be prescribed by a Law enacted by the House of Assembly, and the method of appointment of the Clerk and other staff of the House shall be as prescribed by that Law.

PDP will produce the speaker

slivertongue:
PDP will produce the speaker

yes out of 26 seats, Pdp won 25 seats. So Pdp produced the speaker and other offices in the Assembly

9jahotblog:
yes out of 26 seats, Pdp won 25 seats. So Pdp produced the speaker and other offices in the Assembly

Haba una collect everything

slivertongue:



Haba una collect everything

😂 yes. Infact the one APC collect has been challenged in the tribunal court already.