EDO HOUSE CRISIS: Pro-Oshiomhole lawmakers fix Wed for sitting - Vanguard News

The crisis rocking Edo House of Assembly is not about to end as the 17 lawmakers opposed to Governor Godwin Obaseki vowed to sit next Wednesday.

The AGF, acting on a petition by their lawyer, had, in a memo dated August 5, 2020, requested the Inspector General of Police to “kindly provide adequate security measures for the inauguration of the assembly members and the subsequent sittings at the Edo State House of Assembly.

But three lawmakers who had hitherto been on the side of the governor reportedly defected to the Oshiomhole group last week to swell its number to 17 out of the 24- member House. The embattled Speaker, 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.”

“It is however imperative for leaders like Asiwaju not to allow himself to be dragged into putting personal and group pecuniary and political interests over and above the collective interest and wellbeing of the people of Edo State.”In a related development, the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has said the palace has no preferred candidate, saying he is a father to all.

“We see every candidate as our child and we pray for everybody. It is wiser to leave the fate of the election to God. I am not against any candidate. I have never been for or against any candidate but when the people have chosen via the election, we will pray for him to succeed in office,” Oba Ewuare said.

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