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  • New Edo Speaker, Onobun speaks on Obaseki’s role in his emergence

    New Edo Speaker, Onobun speaks on Obaseki’s role in his emergence

    Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Marcus Onobun, has debunked insinuations that the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, was instrumental to his emergence as Speaker of the House.
    Onobun who gave the clarification on Friday in Benin, said the mantle of leadership was bestowed on him by the collective decision of members of the House.
    He noted that although the Assembly is restructure to ensure that Obaseki succeed as governor, the House will however not hesitate to discharge its statutory functions of checkmating the executive in a non-confrontational manner
    He said: “Obaseki never masterminded my emergence. We are an arm of government and independent.
    “The support I got was from the overwhelming members of the House and you can attest to the fact that the way the House is run now, the governor tried as much as possible to allow the business run without interference.”
    Onobun said the change of leadership became necessary in order to strengthened the grounds to enable the Assembly function in maximum capacity towards discharging its constitutional responsibility.
    He added that the House has not only re-united but equally went further to commute the impeachment of the former Speaker to resignation.
    Commenting on the fate of the 14 APC lawmaker-elects who are yet to be inaugurated, the Speaker said their seats have since been declared vacant
    He called on INEC to as a matter of urgency, conduct election to fill the vacancies as the job of 24 lawmakers have become a herculean task on nine persons
    “We are looking forward to having a complete House and that is why I want to use this opportunity to call on INEC to quickly conduct elections to fill the vacancies and help the House to complete 24 and all the constituencies represented,” he said.
  • BREAKING: Edo Assembly impeaches Speaker, elects another

    BREAKING: Edo Assembly impeaches Speaker, elects another

    The crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly has deepened as the Speaker of the House, Frank Okiye was on Monday impeached.

    The impeachment of the Speaker followed a motion moved by the Leader of the House, Mr. Henry Okhuarobo.

    No reason was however mentioned for his impeachment.

    The motion was seconded by the member representing Akoko-Edo I Constituency, Prince Yekini Idaiye.

    Thereafter, the member representing Igueben Constituency, Mr. Ephraim Aluebhosele, moved a motion to nominate a new Speaker.

    The motion was seconded by the member representing Akoko-Edo II Constituency, Mr Emmanuel Agbaje.

    The Deputy Speaker, Mr Roland Asoro, who presided over the plenary after the impeachment put the motion to a voice vote where it enjoyed the support of all the members at plenary.

    Mr. Marcus Onobun, the member representing member representing Esan West Constituency was thereafter elected as Speaker.

    Following his election, the new Speaker, Mr Marcus Onobun, thanked members of the House for his election.

    He, thereafter, dissolved all the House standing committees and relieved all the appointees of the House of their appointments.

    The Speaker also constituted a three-man committee to look into financial records of the house under the leadership of the former speaker and also placed the former speaker under three months suspension to allow for a peaceful transition.