Ero 2020: Speaker contradicts Obaseki's aide, says no lawmaker denied access to Assembly complex

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Ero 2020: Speaker contradicts Obaseki's aide, says no lawmaker denied access to Assembly complex
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News was rife earlier on Thursday that certain members of the Nigerian Police Force had shown up at the premises to ‘take over the assembly’ in favour of a certain section of the lawmakers.

The Edo State House of Assembly Speaker, Frank Okiye, has said police officers stationed at the assembly complex has not denied any pro-Obaseki lawmaker access to the building.on Thursday, said he had been at the complex and was not denied entrance.

The Edo State governor’s spokesperson, Crusoe Osagie, in a statement sent to this newspaper, linked the change in the assembly’s police team to a plot to take over the venue and “illegally inaugurate 14 dissident members-elect” believed to be loyal to Mr Oshiomhole on Thursday. “Yes, there are policemen around, but I have no way of knowing whether they are from in or outside the state, but I saw the DC of Benin and we exchange pleasantries.

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