Uncertainty as battle for new Ogun Assembly Speaker thickens
Barring any closing-minute adjustments, the tenth Ogun Order Home of Meeting may perhaps be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 20.
The inauguration of the Tenth Meeting will additionally consist of the election of a brand unique Speaker, Deputy Speaker and other foremost officers of the Home.
DAILY POST recalls that the inauguration earlier scheduled for June 13 used to be postponed with none reason by the Clerk, Deji Adeyemo.
With much less than 24 hours to the unique date, among the participants-elect acknowledged additionally they may be able to no longer verify whether or no longer or no longer the occasion would preserve, seeing precedent in the capability the first one used to be called off closing week.
It may perhaps per chance most likely perhaps presumably be recalled that a member-elect from Abeokuta Constituency, Lukmon Atobatele, had called on the management of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun to put its residence in verbalize and fabricate on who may perhaps be the following Speaker rather then postponing immigration.
Our correspondent gathered that, as at the time of filing this document, the APC is but to terminate a consensus on the following foremost officers, in particular the Speaker.
It used to be gathered that the prompt previous Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, is looking for to in terms of the seat he vacated about two weeks in the past.
However, there are participants who have to no longer chuffed with his form of management and the N2.5bn fraud cost the Economic and Financial Crimes Rate (EFCC) filed in opposition to him.
Decent sources confided in our correspondent that high Ogun indigenes in 2019 prevailed on Hon. Oludaisi Elemide of Odeda Constituency to step down for Oluomo to emerge Speaker.
In return, Oluomo used to be quoted to indulge in made promises to Elemide and some and his team attend then, assuring them that they’d no longer feel sorry about their decision to let him indulge in the quantity one publish.
Nonetheless, a source disclosed that, “Oluomo didn’t fulfill any of the guarantees he made. As a replace, he dominated worship an emperor, battling any member who tried to ask his authority to the extent of sacking his faded deputy, Dare Kadiri.”
For the time being, the acknowledged Elemide is declared to be attend in the traipse for the publish of Speaker.
Whether or no longer or no longer Elemide would fight except the discontinue, time will verbalize.
