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         Edo Assembly Crisis: Sitting Stalled As Lawmakers Fail To Resolve Impasse

                                               EDO STATE OF NIGERIA LAWMAKERS

The stalemate in Edo State House of Assembly entered its 3rd week yesterday as all the members of the house, including the four purportedly suspended and other members of the house from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC), reporting for sitting.

Unsurprisingly, there was a scuffle in front of the gate as APC lawmakers attempted to stop the four suspended lawmakers from entering the chambers while the suspended ones, Friday Ogierakhi, Patrick Osayimen, Jude Ise-Idehen and Festus Ebea, and the other PDP members, also tried to stop the APC lawmakers from entering the chamber, claiming that some of them were also under suspension.

As the disagreement raged on, the lawmakers gathered and sat in front of the entrance, hoping that impasse would be resolved for proper legislative duties.

At the time of filing this report yesterday, all the lawmakers were still in front of the entrance gate into the assembly with their vehicles parked along Airport Road while policemen took control of adjoining roads apparently to prevent the break down of law and order.

However, the senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Domingo Obende, yesterday condemned the actions of the PDP lawmakers in the assembly who, he alleged, were being “sponsored from Abuja.”

In a statement made available to journalists in Benin City yesterday, Obende said: “I have watched with dismay the happenings in our dear state House of Assembly and I am embarrassed by what some supposed honourable members have been doing. They have turned themselves to dishonourable lawmakers by not complying with a suspension order duly carried out in accordance to their House rules and they have also flagrantly disobeyed a valid court order restraining them from entering the assembly.

“This is a deliberate ploy to destabilise the House and delay legislative activities at the detriment of the people.”

I urge the APC members to be steadfast and continue to be on the side of the law and people of Edo state. All these are to cause crisis in the state and our great party APC. I urge all members of our party to be vigilant and continue to support the good works the Comrade Governor is doing in Edo State.

“We have seen the difference between light and darkness in this state and we cannot now allow them to draw us back. The APC has shown how development can be taken to the people wherever they as can be seen by the unprecedented development the government of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has brought to us”