“It is a non-issue and I do not want to respond to such issues.”
The Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Frank Okiye, on Thursday said his purported removal by 17 members of the Assembly was a non-issue
A new Speaker, Mr. Victor Edoror, was allegedly elected at an undisclosed location in Benin City during an emergency plenary session attended by 17 elected members on Thursday.learnt from a source that the 14 lawmakers-elect that had yet to be inaugurated were immediately inaugurated, after which they allegedly impeached Frank Okiye and Roland Asoro as Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively.
But reacting to the impeachment, Okiye simply said,
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