EDO HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ‘SACKS’ 12 LAWMAKERS-ELECT
The seats declared vacant are Etsako West I, Etsako West II, Owan East, Owan West, Etsako Central, Etsako East and Esan Central, Uhunmwonde, Oredo East, Oredo West, Egor, Ovia North East I, Ovia North East II and Ovia South-West I.
Penpushing further reports that, the Deputy Speaker declared that members representing Oredo East and Owan East State constituencies, who were sworn-in, failed to meet the mandatory 181-day sitting requirement for a member in a calendar year.
The number two lawmaker in the State emphasized that the other affected members failed to present themselves for the inauguration, adding, “their constituents have been complaining and have come to us that they want their voices and concerns to be heard at the House’.
‘So, people who are willing to provide quality representation have to be elected to bring the matters of the distraught constituents to the floor for debate and legislation, where necessary,” Idiaye said.
Penpushing also reports that, Washington Osifo, one of the affected lawmakers-elect in reaction accused Governor Obaseki of “bringing back gangsterism” into the state politics’,adding, “I have told people, this is not the Governor I used to know, The Governor I used to know when he came (into power) was against any form of gangsterism’.
“But because he is now gunning for a second term, all those things he came out to condemn, he is now the one welcoming them – arrogance, gangsterism – he has brought them back into the system,” Osifo said.
