The political crisis in the Edo state has
degenerated further with the state House of
Assembly declaring vacant the seats of 12
lawmakers-elect yet to be inaugurated.

All the 24 state legislators in Edo are members
of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The deputy speaker of the assembly, Yekini
Idiaye, told journalists in Benin that the
resolution to declare the seats vacant was
reached during plenary on Wednesday.

The seats declared vacant are Etsako West I,
Etsako West II, Owan East, Owan West, Etsako
Central, Etsako East and Esan Central.
Others are Uhunmwonde, Oredo East, Oredo
West, Egor, Ovia North East I, Ovia North East
II and Ovia South-west I.

Mr Idiaye said the members representing
Oredo East and Owan East state constituencies,
who were sworn-in, failed to meet the
mandatory 181-day sitting requirement for a
member in a calendar year.
Mr Idiaye said the other affected members
failed to present themselves for the
inauguration.

“Their constituents have been complaining and
have come to us that they want their voices
and concerns to be heard at the House. So,
people who are willing to provide quality
representation have to be elected to bring the
matters of the distraught constituents to the
floor for debate and legislation, where
necessary,” he said.
Tussle

The 12 lawmakers were among the 15 excluded
from the controversial inauguration of the state
assembly in June because of the power-tussle
between the national chairman of the APC,
Adams Oshiomhole, and the Edo governor,
Godwin Obaseki.

Nine out of 24 lawmakers met at night to
inaugurate the assembly and elect a speaker,
Frank Okiye.

Their exclusion of the others, PREMIUM TIMES
learnt, was to prevent Mr Oshiomhole’s
loyalists from taking control of the state
legislature.

The 12 lawmakers-elect have been since fled to
Abuja for fear of their safety.
One of the affected lawmakers-elect,
Washington Osifo, accused Mr Obaseki of
“bringing back gangsterism” into the state
politics.

“I have told people, this is not the governor I
used to know,” Mr Osifo, who was elected to
represent Uhunmwode State Constituency, told
PREMIUM TIMES, in July.

“The governor I used to know when he came
(into power) was against any form of
gangsterism.

“But because he is now gunning for a second
term, all those things he came out to condemn,
he is now the one welcoming them – arrogance,
gangsterism – he has brought them back into
the system,” Mr Osifo said.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/south-south-regional/366601-edo-house-of-assembly-sacks-12-lawmakers-elect.html

Oshomole is never Tinubu nor Obaseki will be Ambode!

What happened to Ambode will surely happen to Obaseki

Hmmm ... "Overtake don overtake overtake"

This could take the price for joke of the year, absolutely ridiculous!!!

do they have right to sack

The good question will be have these comedians sacking others Sat for the mandatory 181days themselves? Obaseki out of desperation is just making Edo state a laughing stock.

The state Assembly has no power to nullify the election of the Assembly members.

The sacked lawbreakers are loyal to who?

Oshiomole or Obaseki?

Trouble in the house

Hmm

Oshiomhole is interested, determined in dealing with Obaseki without mercy.

Oshiomhole have started with blackmail,other strategies are incoming...

kelechi50:
What happened to Ambode will surely happen to Obaseki

Damnnnnn niggarrr

You talking as if that is your state

Obaseki is going to fuckkk oshiomhole up anyday anytime twice on election day

Edo people love obaseki

Hmmm. Sack for what

Where two elephants fight, the grass suffers

last last we go dey ok

Just imagine

Nice one


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Good for them ,btw what right has the speaker to declare their sits vacant .?

In Nigeria, we play Animalistic backward Politics.

Crazy enough, the gullible citizens applauds such.

*sick*

helinues:
The sacked lawbreakers are loyal to who?

Oshiomole or Obaseki?

Oshiomole.

That Obaseki guy just they commit many political blunders left and right. He has been tolling the path of no reconciliation, I doubt if the party and the presidency will rise to lobby for him as in the case of Ambode.

Another day, another political drama.

I pity does who where elected for the first time they will never be called honorable

Obaseki is simply sinking deeper. This is one battle he cannot win.

Soldier man dies, barracks still remain.