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EDO ASSEMBLY CRISIS: Senate panel meets state lawmakers loyal to Oshiomhole
The lawmakers elect of Edo State House of Assembly loyal to the All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday had a meeting with the Senate ad hoc committee investigating the crisis rocking the state assembly.
The meeting held at the Senate New Building, National Assembly Complex in Abuja and had in attendance, 12 of the 14 members-elect loyal to Oshiomhole.
Members of the State Assembly were inaugurated on June 17 by Governor Godwin Obaseki.
However, the 14 lawmakers elect loyal to Oshiomhole had claimed that they were left out of the inauguration ceremony, and had cried to the National Assembly to intervene in the matter.
The House of Representatives had already ordered Obaseki to conduct another inauguration for the House.
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The Senate is still investigating the matter. During the meeting on Thursday, Washington Osifo, who spoke for other agrieved member-elects argued that they did not receive any communication from the Clerk on the inauguration.
While accusing the governor of “unleashing terror” on them using state apparatus, Osifo claimed that one of the lawmakers-elect has been kidnapped.
He also said that those of them who had not been kidnapped had been residing in Abuja for about one month now.
Those at the meeting included Seidu Oshiomhole, younger brother to Adams Oshiomhole. Chairman of the committee and Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (APC, Niger), called for calm, assuring that the upper legislative chamber is only interested in restoring public peace and order in the state Assembly.
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