The lawmakers endorsed Ize-Iyamu on Monday during a meeting with the candidate in Benin, the Edo State capital
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The former Speaker, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Benin, said he took the decision after deeply consulting with his conscience, family, friends and his teeming supporters.
Stephen Guobadia, Acting Director of Administration and Supplies of the Assembly, announced the closure in a statement in Benin on behalf of the Clerk, Yahaya Omogbai.
Chris Nehikhare, PDP’s Publicity Secretary in Edo State, said in a statement in Benin on Friday that the reason for such committee was baseless
Obaseki confirmed the outcome of the test on the his verified Twitter handle
The Peoples Democratic Parry on Tuesday sought the order of the Federal High Court, Abuja to join the party as a defendant in a suit brought by the aggrieved 14 Edo State House of Assembly members.
The Edo State House of Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution lifting the suspension on Philip Eguaroje, the Vice Chairman of Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of the state.
Okiye, at a news conference held in Benin, was reacting to a claim by the former Secretary to the State Government, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, that the governor‘s mishandling of the assembly proclamation caused the crisis in the All Progressives Congress.
The immediate past Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, says he is set to release a three-hour documentary “exposing Adams Oshiomhole’s dark waters”.
Dumez, 45, with one other now at large, were said to have committed the offences around 2001.
The Court had ruled that the National Assembly lacks the power to take over the Edo State House of Assembly following the leadership crisis rocking it.
Obaseki and Oshiomhole have been at loggerheads in the last few months
Ruling on a motion ex parte with Suit No: FHC/PH/CS/159/2019 filed before the court by the Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Yekini Idiaye and Hon Henry Okhuarobo (Ikpoba-Okha constituency), Justice Mohammed also ordered the Clerk of the National Assembly, President of the Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives from interfering or taking over the legislative functions of the Assembly.
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has assigned portfolios to recently appointed commissioners and special advisers after their successful screening by the Edo State House of Assembly.
The Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly, Francis Okiye, on Wednesday filed a suit stopping the National Assembly from taking over the state assembly’s functions at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The Edo State Government has described as alarming the directive by the Senate to the State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, to make a renewed proclamation for the Edo State House of Assembly.
The decision of the Senate was as result of the report submitted by the Adhoc Committee it set up to investigate the matter.
The House of Representatives on Friday extended the one-week ultimatum to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo to re-issue proclamation for inauguration of the House of Assembly, to one month.
The Peoples Democratic Party says the order by the House of Representatives asking the Police and the Department of State Services to shut down the Edo State House of Assembly is unconstitutional.
The Senate Ad hoc committee investigating the crisis led by Senator Abdullahi Sabi invited 12 out of 24 lawmakers from the state for questioning.