An All Progressives Grand Alliance lawmaker representing Aguata 11, at the Anambra House of Assembly, Ikem Uzozie, has defected to the All Progressives Congress.
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The All Progressives Grand Alliance has won 24 of the 30 seats in the Anambra State House of Assembly, while Peoples Democratic party won six seats, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The assembly passed the bill after receiving the report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation on the 2019 draft capital and recurrent estimate.
A Federal High Court sitting in Awka has fixed January 23, 2019 for the determination of the authentic Speaker of the Anambra House of Assembly.
NAN reports that the workers in the assembly were seen in their duty posts for business of the day but the lawmakers had yet to sit as at the time of the report.
Ikem Uzoezie, a factional Speaker of Anambra House of Assembly, has urged the I-G Ibrahim Idris to direct the Police Command in Anambra to unseal the Assembly complex.
Udoh told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Awka, that the legislators failed to operate within the confines of the law guiding workings of the civil service in the complex to save lives and property.
He made the promise on Thursday in Awka during his maiden news briefing shortly after holding his first plenary session, which was attended by 25 out of the 30 members of the house.
Some of the residents who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Thursday while reacting to the development called for peaceful resolution of the crisis.
The House Committee on Information, Culture and Tourism oragnised the Hearing