•Publish names of 10 lawmakers who sat, APC dares Fayose
The All Progressives Congress (APC) may lose its majority status in Ekiti House of Assembly, if a fresh political deal being reportedly packaged sails through.
The party, currently with 16 lawmakers, may end up with equal number of seats with its Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, as three of its lawmakers have reportedly opened defection discussion with the PDP, which controls the executive arm of government.
The party, originally with 25 members, lost six to PDP as Governor Ayo Fayose assumed office, with another three said to be part of the 10 pro-Fayose lawmakers that cleared his commissioner-nominees and council caretaker members on Monday.
In order to constitutionally take over the leadership of the assembly from the majority party, moves are reportedly on to strike a mutually-benefiting deal with three more APC lawmakers that were open to defection talks.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that it would be risky for the said lawmakers to expose their identity now.It was gathered that once the two parties were arithmetically-even, the APC defectors would be used in luring members on the side of APC to support the planned leadership change in the assembly.
It was gathered that part of the new deal being packaged for those expected to defect from APC was that one of them would emerge the new speaker.
The seat, currently occupied by Honourable Adewale Omirin, is alleged to have been specifically demanded by his colleagues as a condition precedent for crossing over.
Part II A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) Section 90 (2) gives the conditions to be met before the speaker could be removed.
It reads: “The Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly shall vacate his office if - (a) if he ceases to be a member of the House of Assembly otherwise than by reason of the dissolution of the House;
(b) When the House first sits after any dissolution of House; or (c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of House of Assembly by the votes of not less than two-third majority of the members of the House.”
The source was confident that with 13 members each, it would be easier getting the required number to constitutionally remove Omirin.
About 19 lawmakers would be needed to remove him from office.
The composition of members of caretaker committees for the local government council areas was also said to be a throw-in, in the packaging of the deal.
Lawmakers of APC hue were reportedly asked to nominate transitional members for the local governments and had allegedly consented.
The source told the Nigerian Tribune that even lawmakers not disposed to leaving APC accepted the offer to nominate members for the council management.
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ayo Fayose confirmed the nomination development on his Facebook wall on Monday, when he said shocker awaited Omirin on the claimed loyalty of the 19 APC lawmakers.
Publish names of 10 lawmakers who sat, APC dares Fayose
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Ektii State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose to publish names of the 10 lawmakers who sat to ratify his commissioner-nominees and caretaker committee members on Monday.
The party through its publicity secretary in the state, Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement he made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday, said: “if Governor Fayose wants members of the public to believe that the lawmakers who sat were actually 10 that formed a quorum, he should let the whole world have their names and their constituencies.”
He reiterated that “only seven PDP lawmakers sat but were joined by three other strange men who disguised as lawmakers to deceive people at the gallery.”
The APC also challenged Governor Fayose to produce the video recording of the proceedings on Monday “as required by assembly rules.”
Olatunbosun said: “The time the seven PDP lawmakers were holding their illegal sitting in Ado Ekiti, the 19 APC lawmakers, including the Speaker and his deputy, were on a live radio programme in Akure. There are 26 members in the House of Assembly, if 19 were on a radio programme in Akure, only seven or less will be sitting in the assembly and if they are more than seven, it means they are rented.”
However, only 16 of the APC lawmakers jointly addressed newsmen in Ikere-Ekiti, following Monday’s development as against the 19 of them that were said to have been together on the issue.
The APC lawmakers that were not part of the Ikere press conference their caucus addressed were: Olaseinde Ojo (Ekiti East l); Agidi Peter Tope, Ekiti South West l and Kehinde Boluwade, Emure, to which Ogunsuyi said “the people should fill the gap themselves.”
On the allegation raised by the Speaker that the governor sacked his aides, Fayose said: “It was the same assembly that passed the law that empowers the governor to fire and hire aides for the Speaker and his deputy. So, what he did was within the ambit of the law.
Reacting, the Ekiti State government, on Tuesday, said Governor Fayose had not done anything to denigrate the legislative and judicial arms of government since assumption of office on October 16.
The governor had been accused of interference by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and speaker of the House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin.
Fayose, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Lanre Ogunsuyi, said the embattled Speaker of the House of Assembly should “stop misdirecting himself over his woes and look inward in resolving his crisis rather than blaming the governor over his frosty relationship with other members of the assembly.”
But Ogunsuyi, while debunking the claim by Olatunbosun on the number of APC lawmakers in the assembly, said three APC lawmakers joined their seven PDP colleagues to form quorum, adding that some of them had indicated interest to work with the state government to ensure the smooth running of the state.
Fayose, who was reacting to the allegation that he tried to muzzle the judicial and legislative arms as raised by the APC caucus in the assembly, said the APC in the assembly had “only displayed ignorance by linking him with the appointment of a Speaker Pro-tempore, Mr Dele Olugbemi, to conduct the affairs of the assembly during Monday’s sitting.”
“I even learnt that he said the electricity supply to his house has been cut. It is smacks of insensitivity for a number three man to be crying wolf over this when the same government he served was indebted to the electricity company.
“We don’t even expect him to say such now when Ekiti is under the burden of N86 billion left behind by Governor Kayode Fayemi. How to make the civil servants lead a good life and other Ekiti citizens should be his focus if truly he was committed.”
Source: Tribune
The All Progressives Congress (APC) may lose its majority status in Ekiti House of Assembly, if a fresh political deal being reportedly packaged sails through.
The party, currently with 16 lawmakers, may end up with equal number of seats with its Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, as three of its lawmakers have reportedly opened defection discussion with the PDP, which controls the executive arm of government.
The party, originally with 25 members, lost six to PDP as Governor Ayo Fayose assumed office, with another three said to be part of the 10 pro-Fayose lawmakers that cleared his commissioner-nominees and council caretaker members on Monday.
In order to constitutionally take over the leadership of the assembly from the majority party, moves are reportedly on to strike a mutually-benefiting deal with three more APC lawmakers that were open to defection talks.
Nigerian Tribune learnt that it would be risky for the said lawmakers to expose their identity now.It was gathered that once the two parties were arithmetically-even, the APC defectors would be used in luring members on the side of APC to support the planned leadership change in the assembly.
It was gathered that part of the new deal being packaged for those expected to defect from APC was that one of them would emerge the new speaker.
The seat, currently occupied by Honourable Adewale Omirin, is alleged to have been specifically demanded by his colleagues as a condition precedent for crossing over.
Part II A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) Section 90 (2) gives the conditions to be met before the speaker could be removed.
It reads: “The Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly shall vacate his office if - (a) if he ceases to be a member of the House of Assembly otherwise than by reason of the dissolution of the House;
(b) When the House first sits after any dissolution of House; or (c) if he is removed from office by a resolution of House of Assembly by the votes of not less than two-third majority of the members of the House.”
The source was confident that with 13 members each, it would be easier getting the required number to constitutionally remove Omirin.
About 19 lawmakers would be needed to remove him from office.
The composition of members of caretaker committees for the local government council areas was also said to be a throw-in, in the packaging of the deal.
Lawmakers of APC hue were reportedly asked to nominate transitional members for the local governments and had allegedly consented.
The source told the Nigerian Tribune that even lawmakers not disposed to leaving APC accepted the offer to nominate members for the council management.
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ayo Fayose confirmed the nomination development on his Facebook wall on Monday, when he said shocker awaited Omirin on the claimed loyalty of the 19 APC lawmakers.
Publish names of 10 lawmakers who sat, APC dares Fayose
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Ektii State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose to publish names of the 10 lawmakers who sat to ratify his commissioner-nominees and caretaker committee members on Monday.
The party through its publicity secretary in the state, Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, in a statement he made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday, said: “if Governor Fayose wants members of the public to believe that the lawmakers who sat were actually 10 that formed a quorum, he should let the whole world have their names and their constituencies.”
He reiterated that “only seven PDP lawmakers sat but were joined by three other strange men who disguised as lawmakers to deceive people at the gallery.”
The APC also challenged Governor Fayose to produce the video recording of the proceedings on Monday “as required by assembly rules.”
Olatunbosun said: “The time the seven PDP lawmakers were holding their illegal sitting in Ado Ekiti, the 19 APC lawmakers, including the Speaker and his deputy, were on a live radio programme in Akure. There are 26 members in the House of Assembly, if 19 were on a radio programme in Akure, only seven or less will be sitting in the assembly and if they are more than seven, it means they are rented.”
However, only 16 of the APC lawmakers jointly addressed newsmen in Ikere-Ekiti, following Monday’s development as against the 19 of them that were said to have been together on the issue.
The APC lawmakers that were not part of the Ikere press conference their caucus addressed were: Olaseinde Ojo (Ekiti East l); Agidi Peter Tope, Ekiti South West l and Kehinde Boluwade, Emure, to which Ogunsuyi said “the people should fill the gap themselves.”
On the allegation raised by the Speaker that the governor sacked his aides, Fayose said: “It was the same assembly that passed the law that empowers the governor to fire and hire aides for the Speaker and his deputy. So, what he did was within the ambit of the law.
Reacting, the Ekiti State government, on Tuesday, said Governor Fayose had not done anything to denigrate the legislative and judicial arms of government since assumption of office on October 16.
The governor had been accused of interference by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and speaker of the House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin.
Fayose, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Lanre Ogunsuyi, said the embattled Speaker of the House of Assembly should “stop misdirecting himself over his woes and look inward in resolving his crisis rather than blaming the governor over his frosty relationship with other members of the assembly.”
But Ogunsuyi, while debunking the claim by Olatunbosun on the number of APC lawmakers in the assembly, said three APC lawmakers joined their seven PDP colleagues to form quorum, adding that some of them had indicated interest to work with the state government to ensure the smooth running of the state.
Fayose, who was reacting to the allegation that he tried to muzzle the judicial and legislative arms as raised by the APC caucus in the assembly, said the APC in the assembly had “only displayed ignorance by linking him with the appointment of a Speaker Pro-tempore, Mr Dele Olugbemi, to conduct the affairs of the assembly during Monday’s sitting.”
“I even learnt that he said the electricity supply to his house has been cut. It is smacks of insensitivity for a number three man to be crying wolf over this when the same government he served was indebted to the electricity company.
“We don’t even expect him to say such now when Ekiti is under the burden of N86 billion left behind by Governor Kayode Fayemi. How to make the civil servants lead a good life and other Ekiti citizens should be his focus if truly he was committed.”
Source: Tribune
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