While All Progressives Congress (APC)’s speaker, Adewale Omirin, described the passage as illegal, Dele Olugbemi, described Omirin’s comments condemning the passage of the 2015 Appropriation Bill as a ruse, saying his views held no water.
Omirin, who described the passage as an exercise in futility, said the seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers were lawfully suspended at a sitting two weeks ago in Ado-Ekiti where resolutions on the autonomy for the local governments and House of Assembly, among others, were passed and sent to the National Assembly as Ekiti State contributions to the constitution amendment process.
Olugbemi, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Mr. Femi Iroko, described Omirin and his colleagues as daydreamers and urged them to wake up to the realities on ground.
“We are amused when people that have been removed from office, and who are in court challenging their removal and whose case has not been decided, woke up from the wrong sides of their beds and claim they are faulting an action taken by a legal and constitutional group.
“We sat in the hallowed chamber of the State House of Assembly and received the bill from the duly elected governor of the state and worked on the bill in the constitutionally-designated venue for the sittings of an honourable house. Let Omirin tell the world where he and his co-travellers sat to take their wild decisions,” he said.
Omirin in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, described yesterday’s exercise as one in the series of comic tales by farcical politicians holding the reins of governance in Ekiti State.
“Governor Ayodele Fayose has turned Ekiti State House of Assembly to a safari park where the macho posturing of misguided adults in G7 is being masterfully manipulated by this accomplished choreographer of political sophistry.
“In the sitting they themselves knew was illegal, they chased away print and electronic reporters that got wind of their plan to sit. They held the illegal meeting with no in-house correspondents in attendance as they were also chased out. In their wisdom, they, as usual, reportedly had Lere Olayinka and Dele Olugbemi’s personal assistant in attendance.
“As far as the constitution of Nigeria is concerned, the ‘Assembly’ led by Olugbemi is an illegal body that has no place in law. APC lawmakers shall continue in the path of constitutionality for our errant and misguided colleagues to know that it is only through law, truth and honour that we can take Ekiti State to the heights that will be a pride to all our people,” Omirin said.
SOURCE: THE SUN
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