Leave Edo govt out of Assembly crisis, APC tells PDP BENIN—THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, has described as untrue and an attempt to misinform the public, the allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state that the crisis in the state House of Assembly was being fuelled by the state government. State chairman of the party, Mr. Anslem Ojezua, in a statement, explained that the three suspended members of the House of Assembly had approached a Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, wherein they sought and obtained an ex-parte order, restraining the Speaker and the House from declaring their seats vacant and/or suspending them pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice which they also filed in the same suit. “The said motion on notice was subsequently argued and on June 6, 2014, Justice A. Liman of the Federal High Court, whilst granting an injunction restraining the Speaker and the House from declaring the seats of the applicants vacant, however, refused the prayer for an injunction restraining the applicants from being suspended from membership of the House. “On June 9, 2014, the Edo State House of Assembly, acting within their powers duly recognised by Justice Liman in the ruling earlier referred to, suspended four of its members for an indefinite period for the offence of misconduct as provided for under Order 38 of the Rules of Procedure of the House. “Upon the failure of the said members to comply with the suspension order and their acts of forcible entry into the premises and chambers of the House of Assembly, Principal Officers filed a suit at the Edo State High Court on June 11, 2014. The court granted an order restraining the said four suspended members from forcefully gaining entrance into the premises.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:47:28 +0000
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