Seventeen members of the Edo State House of Assembly loyal to the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday impeached the Speaker, Frank Okiye, a
nd elected Mr Victor Edoror, as his successor.
It was learnt that a team of Special Anti-Robbery Squad allegedly deployed from Abuja had in the early hours of Thursday attempted to dislodge the regular policemen guarding the Assembly Complex.This came less than 24 hours after the Deputy Speaker of the House, Mr Yekini Idiaye, was impeached by seven lawmakers loyal to Obaseki.
The governor, who was said to have cut short an ongoing campaign of the PDP in Edo North to Benin City, told his supporters at the Assembly that there was no cause for alarm.Okiye who later impeached by pro-Oshiomhole lawmakers, pledged to defend the Assembly.Shortly after the governor and the Speaker left, artisans ostensibly acting on government orders, resumed work in the ongoing renovation.
He insisted that the governor was responsible for numerous other sieges to the Assembly complex and was in the best position to tell the world who was behind the invasion. Ologbondiyan, in a statement titled, ‘.Stop invasion of Edo Assembly now’ said, “The party posits that the invasion and illegal occupation of the state legislature by security agents allegedly deployed by sacked national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, is a direct coup against the democratic order of Edo State and a recipe for anarchy, chaos and bloodletting.
The party restated its call to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , to rein in Adams Oshiomhole before he triggered a serious crisis in the state.
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