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| Ondo Assembly: a toothless bulldog – A C O |
In response to the purported threat of the Ondo State House of Assembly to recall Hon Ifedayo Abegunde, the lawmaker representing Akure North/Akure South federal constituency from the Federal House Of Representatives, a Chieftain of the Abegunde Campaign Organisation has condemned the Ondo state House of Assembly for allowing itself to be used by the governor.
It describes the action of the house as “efforts in futility”. “Instead of the legislators to concentrate on the business for which they were elected, in other to impress the governor, the house observed a political plenary where a resolution designed by the governor was passed. Even when the governor included in his budget speech the completion of diagnostic centre as his project, when actually it is owned by Mecure Health care, the legislators did not call the attention of the governor to this simple fact thereby failed to defend the masses”, Gbenga said.
The group condemned the Assembly’s resolution. It described it as "overzealousness," explaining that the matter is pending before the Federal High Court, Akure.
ACO said: "We do not even know what section of the constitution empowers the lawmakers to deviate from their constitutional roles.
"The House did not pass any resolution when the incumbent Speaker, Samuel Adesina, and three other lawmakers defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to LP in 2010, even though there was no crisis in PDP.
"There was no resolution against them from the House; there was no moral justification for it to embark on an assignment outside its oversight functions.
"Ondo people and the leadership of the National Assembly are not fools. We respect the fact that the matter is already in court |
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