Ekiti PDP lawmakers should be tried for felony – Hon. AYODEJI ODU. The representative of Irepodun/Ifelodun Constituency II in the Ekiti State House of Assembly and Chairman, Judiciary and Legal Matters Committee, Mr. Ayodeji Odu, speaks about the impasse in the Assembly What’s your view on the suspension of the 19 All Progressives Congress legislators by the seven Peoples Democratic Party legislators?The seven suspended members cannot form a quorum in a 26-member Ekiti State House of Assembly. Section 101 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) allows the House of Assembly to regulate its proceedings and, having passed a motion to that effect, can relocate to any public building since the ‘maximum ruler’ in Ekiti State has decided to join the seven members in mobilising the security apparatus of the state and political thugs against the majority of the legislators. Go to the Assembly premises, you will see over 50 armed thugs, whose main assignment is to kill or maim any of the 19 APC legislators sighted within the complex. We are perfectly justified to relocate with our symbol of authority to any public institution within the state capital to conduct our sittings and we shall continue to do that. In a sane society, the seven suspended PDP lawmakers and their accomplices ought to be on trial for treasonable felony.Why didn’t you, APC lawmakers, drag the seven PDP lawmakers to court?We are in court and the court has not said we should not perform our duty as legislators. If they feel aggrieved, they should go to court too. Any further sitting by the seven suspended members will complicate the issue. I pray for God’s wisdom to prevail before it is too late. The impostor speaker, Dele Olugbemi, cannot claim to be a speaker. In fact, he does not qualify to be a speaker.The PDP has said that the 19 APC lawmakers in the legislature are acting the script of the leader of your party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu?That is not true. Tinubu never interfered even when Governor Kayode Fayemi was in the saddle. He has maintained a calm approach to the whole issue coming up in Ekiti State. For some, the fear of the Jagaban of Borgu is the beginning of wisdom. All the allegations of his bankrolling us is balderdash. They are probably curious about how we are surviving but I state it again that some of us can still feed well despite being denied our salaries and allowances by Fayose. I have lawyers running my legal chambers and the same applies for other members who have their primary callings. The G19 are no stooges of anyone. No stooge would have the ability to take the stand we have taken in Ekiti State.You were alleged by Olugbemi to have turned yourself into a bailiff by procuring and serving court processes on the floor of the Ekiti State House of Assembly to truncate the dissolution and reconstitution of the local government caretaker committee requested by the governor.I don’t think it’s appropriate to refer to Joseph Dele Olugbemi as a factional Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly. The term ‘factional leader’ may seem to confer some form of legitimacy on his actions. He is an illegal speaker, a usurper, whose emergence has violated all constitutional provisions. He is an illegality and a constitutional aberration. His type can only emerge in a society filled with absurdities. Now coming to your question, it’s obvious that Olugbemi does not even know what a bailiff means and, for his proper education, he should go and read the Sheriff and Civil Process Law as contained in the annual volumes of the Laws of Nigeria for proper education. What happened on the floor of the House of Assembly on November 17, 2014 was simple and straightforward enough for a primary school pupil to understand.A writ of summons in which the House and the Speaker were joined as parties was served on the House of Assembly and received by the Clerk of the House. It was directed to me for my attention as the Chairman of the Judiciary and Legal Matters Committee of the Assembly by Speaker Adewale Omirin. Copies of the originating proc [truncated by WhatsApp]
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