Speakers of 35 states' Houses of Assembly has
said that they would not recognise Hon. Dele
Olugbemi as the Speaker of the Ekiti State
House of Assembly.
They made this known under a forum which
encompasses all the speakers of the 36 states
of the federation, the Conference of Speakers
of State Legislatures (CSSL).
It will be recalled that the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) members of the House of
Assembly, on Thursday, November 20,
impeached Dr Adewale Omirin as their Speaker
and appointed Mr Dele Olugbemi from Ikole
Constituency II, who recently defected to the
PDP from the All Progressives Congress, as his
replacement.
According to the Minority Leader, Hon. Samuel
Ajibola, said the decision became imperative
following “Omirin and his deputy absence
without official notice,” adding that “the
business of the House cannot grind to a halt as
government is a continuum.”
The lawmakers, according to Ajibola, found
“Omirin guilty of revealing official secrets,
misappropriation of Assembly funds and
signing of bonds with the past executive
without the knowledge of other members of the
House.”
However, the CSSL's chairman and also
Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of
Assembly, Hon. Sam Ikon, while addressing
journalists in Abuja at an interactive session of
Civil Society Organizations and Speakers of
State Houses of Assembly on "Constitution
Amendment Bills awaiting passage" organized
by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre
(PLAC), said that the group still recognised Dr.
Adewale Omirin as the Speaker of the Ekiti
State House of Assembly because the mode of
his impeachment was illegal and
unconstitutional.
Vanguard.
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