Edo Speaker To AGF: Don’t Allow Desperate Politicians Use Your Office To Cause Crisis
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, with his deputy, Philip Shaibu, and the State House of Assembly Speaker, Frank Okiye, and others at the Assembly complex in Benin City on August 6, 2020.Following what has now been termed the “failed invasion” of the Edo State House of Assembly Complex, the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon.
Okiye, who shared details of pending and concluded litigation having a bearing on the Assembly, said, the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, with Suit no. FHC/PH/CS/159/19, gave a final judgment on September 19, 2019, and held that the Assembly was properly inaugurated on June 17, 2019, and that the House is sitting and carrying out its functions, adding:
“The Court also restrained the Governor of Edo State or any other person from issuing the second proclamation to restart the House.”“Suit no. FHC/AB/CS/1582/2019: Rt. Hon. Victor Sabor Edoror and 13 others against Hon. Frank Okiye weeks away from a gubernatorial election scheduled for September 19th, 2020, we would plead with you not to allow the enormous prestige of your office to be used by unscrupulous persons to turn our state into a theatre of war.
“Whilst offering you the assurance of our regards, we hope that urgent steps will be taken to ensure that the situation does not degenerate further,”
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