BREAKING NEWS! #24 Oyo Lawmakers Sign Impeachment Plot Against Ajimobi, Speaker# *Governor dangles N500m before lawmakers *Mace taken to unknown location *We’ll achieve our objective by end of August- PDP, APC, Accord lawmakers *House on emergency recess, to resume August 28 Despite serial denials from the leadership and lily-livered members of the Oyo State House of Assembly, especially those who have profited from a regime of deceit, there is palpable plot to remove the Speaker, Alhaja Monsurat Sunmonu and Gov Ajimobi. The twin agenda is being spearheaded by lawmakers from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Accord Party (AP). APC has the majority in the Assembly with 18 members, while the PDP and Accord Party have 9 and 5 lawmakers respectively in the 32-member House. But NEWSLEAK can authoritatively report that 10 of the APC lawmakers have joined their counterparts in PDP and Accord to form a group of “seriously aggrieved” assemblymen. As of Sunday evening, the 24 lawmakers (10 APC, 9 PDP and 5 Accord) have all signed the impeachment plot and are holding meetings which venues they keep changing. To avert the looming removal, the Speaker, who made history as the first woman to hold the office in the state, has held a series of meetings with Governor Ajimobi on how to resolve the logjam. One of the options being considered is to dangle a sum of N500million before the aggrieved lawmakers to shelve the plan. But a source in government said the N500million was the annual statutory empowerment fund that the governor gives to the lawmakers to ensure they remain relevant in their constituencies. The source added that “with the situation of things now, Oga (Governor Ajimobi) may not have any option than to release the money to the lawmakers quickly” so as to abort the plan. He added that, contrary to insinuation that PDP and Accord leaders might be behind the plan, it was the governor who took the lawmakers for granted “resting on the docility and sheepish loyalty of the House to him.” The Speaker of the House, NEWSLEAK can reveal, on Sunday evening left the country for London onward Saudi Arabia for UMRAH lesser hajj. Her trip was originally scheduled for Friday evening. The Mace, which is the symbol of legislative without which no legislative proceeding, including the impeachment plan, can become legal and authoritative, has been moved to an unknown location. But some of the lawmakers spearheading the plot hinted that they have the end of August as deadline for the “successful implementation” of the agenda. The House, at plenary last Thursday, adjourned sitting to August 28 for the annual “working recess” of the lawmakers.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:55:53 +0000
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