ADVERTISEMENT
The Sun Nigeria
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun
  • The Sun Foundation
No Result
View All Result
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun
  • The Sun Foundation
No Result
View All Result
The Sun Nigeria
No Result
View All Result
ADVERTISEMENT
Home Cover

Imo gov, APC plotting to import fake mace, take over Edo Assembly –Speaker

• Allegation false, baseless

6th August 2020
in Cover, Politics
2
Imo gov, APC plotting to import fake mace, take over Edo Assembly –Speaker
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri

Edo State House of Assembly Speaker, Frank Okiye, has raised the alarm over a plot by Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, and stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, to import a fake mace to take over the Edo Assembly.

Okiye, who spoke after plenary, yesterday, in Benin, said the plot is to be executed in cahoots with the impeached Deputy Speaker, Yekini Idiaye.

“The dubious plan by Governor Uzodinma and APC stakeholders in Edo to import a fake mace to take over the state Assembly working in cahoots with the deputy speaker, who recently declared support for APC candidate to congregate in a secret location to illegally and violently take over control of the Assembly has been brought to our notice,” he said.

Warning of the grave consequences such a move portends for democracy in Nigeria, Okiye called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Imo governor, and others working with him to execute the illegal plan, to desist from their plans and allow the laws of the state to guide them.

“The state’s polity is already heated by the high political tension from the electioneering. Their planned action is akin to lighting a match in an already tensed political environment, which conflagration is capable of causing crisis in the state, and of a scale beyond our imagination.

“We call on Edo people, whose mandate and interests the state’s legislature holds and protects, to rise against this planned attack and plot to subvert their will and subjugate them using external forces.

“We urge lovers of democracy, across the world, institutions that uphold democratic tenets and values, pro-democracy groups, to denounce this planned illegality that seeks to distract a duly constituted authority.

“We recognise the constitutional rights of the three members of the Assembly to support the candidate of their choice, but that should not distract them from coming to work to carry out the job they were elected for.

“We are, as always, committed to the protection of the democratic rights of our people as the legislature remains a sacred institution in the democratisation process,” he said.

Meanwhile, Governor Uzodimma has described as false and baseless, allegation by the Edo speaker that he was plotting to import mace to the Edo Assembly.

Uzodimma, who reacted through the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, said the governor has no business with the problems in the Assembly, urging those concerned to settle their problem and leave him out of it.

“It is unimaginable for somebody to say such a thing, how can he leave his saddled responsibility of governing his state to delve into such issues, they are only imagining things, it is not his business how they run their Assembly. Right now, he is only thinking of how to take Imo to greater heights.

“So, the allegation is false, baseless and unfounded and they should withdraw the allegation with immediate effect,” Emelumba said.

Regardless, a member representing Orhionmwon II Constituency, Roland Asoro, has been elected deputy speaker.

His election followed the impeachment of Idiaye, yesterday, during plenary.

Rapheal

Rapheal

Related Posts

APC vs PDP plateau
Politics

Voting for APC, PDP is like romancing with the devil- Majasan

3rd February 2023
Produce killers of Gulak in two weeks or … – Northern group tells Uzodinma
Politics

2023: Imo PDP accuses Uzodimma of engaging in alleged vote buying scheme

3rd February 2023
2023 presidency: Anambra monarchs deny endorsing Atiku
Politics

Group tackles Atiku for allegedly playing politics with naira swap

3rd February 2023
Next Post
Fulani Radio: IPOB, MASSOB, other Igbo groups kick

… IPOB asks group to work for its de-proscription

Protesting college workers, security clash in Benin

Protesting college workers, security clash in Benin

Why I dissolved Ohanaeze branches in Ghana, London –Nwodo

Ohanaeze NEC gives Nwodo confidence vote

Comments 2

  1. Tony says:
    2 years ago

    We NDIGBO are calling on the good people of Edo state to stone IMO State supreme court governor Hope Uzodinma anywhere he is sighted in Edo state. He is a criminal .

    Reply
  2. JACK says:
    2 years ago

    UZODIMMA IS MAD FOR HAVING MEDDLED INTO EDO POLITICS AT A TIME LIKE THIS. WHAT DID HE GO THERE TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE? …….MTCHEW

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Highlights

Voting for APC, PDP is like romancing with the devil- Majasan

New Naira notes scarcity forces students, soldiers clash at UNIBEN

Fuel Scarcity: Adeleke sets up special monitoring team in Osun

Nasarawa killings: Ortom will not be muzzled into silence – Tambaya

2023: Imo PDP accuses Uzodimma of engaging in alleged vote buying scheme

Group tackles Atiku for allegedly playing politics with naira swap

Trending

Osun monarch apologises to UNIOSUNTH over attack on staff by community youths
National

New Naira note: Buhari, Emefiele, stop inflicting suffering on Nigerians — Oluwo of Iwo

3rd February 2023
0

By Christopher Oji The traditional ruler of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi,has condemned the Federal Government (...

Group threatens to bomb Catholic Church in Lagos

Anambra police repel another gunmen attack on police station, recover bombs, others

3rd February 2023
Fuel scarcity looms as NARTO threatens strike over high operational cost

Scarcity: Taskforce storms petrol stations in Delta, warns against hoarding

3rd February 2023
APC vs PDP plateau

Voting for APC, PDP is like romancing with the devil- Majasan

3rd February 2023
New Naira notes scarcity forces students, soldiers clash at UNIBEN

New Naira notes scarcity forces students, soldiers clash at UNIBEN

3rd February 2023
ADVERTISEMENT

Follow us on social media:

Latest News

  • New Naira note: Buhari, Emefiele, stop inflicting suffering on Nigerians — Oluwo of Iwo
  • Anambra police repel another gunmen attack on police station, recover bombs, others
  • Scarcity: Taskforce storms petrol stations in Delta, warns against hoarding
  • Voting for APC, PDP is like romancing with the devil- Majasan
  • New Naira notes scarcity forces students, soldiers clash at UNIBEN
  • Fuel Scarcity: Adeleke sets up special monitoring team in Osun
  • Nasarawa killings: Ortom will not be muzzled into silence – Tambaya
  • 2023: Imo PDP accuses Uzodimma of engaging in alleged vote buying scheme
  • Group tackles Atiku for allegedly playing politics with naira swap
  • We’ll deliver Tinubu, Nentawe, APC candidates in 2023 – Gagdi, Plateau Reps member
  • El-rufai an anarchist, shouldn’t be taken serious, group tells Nigerians
  • Borussia – Freiburg: preview by 1xBet
  • Police rescue 4 remaining pupils abducted from Nasarawa school 
  • I will not be deterred by antics of detractors – Bishop Anagbe
  • Senator Oduah donates tricycle, N.5 million to widow in Onitsha
  • Governor Adeleke mobilises contractor back to abandoned Osun/Kwara boundary road
  • I set my wife ablaze for failing to serve me food on time – Suspect
  • Tinubu describes Atiku Nigeria’s worst enemy
  • Police nab fake currency syndicate in Enugu with counterfeits
  • 2023 Polls: FG meets Google, Facebook over fakes news

Categories

  • Abuja Metro
  • Anambra Watch
  • Arts
  • Broken Tongues
  • Business
  • Business Week
  • Cartoons
  • Citizen Joe
  • Columns
  • Cover
  • Culture
  • Duro Onabule
  • Editorial
  • Education Review
  • Effect
  • Elections
  • Entertainment
  • Events
  • Features
  • Femi Adesina
  • Food & Drinks
  • Frank Talk
  • Funke Egbemode
  • Gallery
  • Global Square by Kenneth Okonkwo
  • Health
  • Insights
  • Kalu Leadership Series
  • Kunle Solaja
  • Kunle Solaja
  • Letters
  • Lifeline
  • Lifestyle
  • Literary Review
  • Marketing Matters
  • Muiz Banire
  • National
  • News
  • Offside Musings
  • Opinion
  • oriental news
  • Politics
  • Press Release
  • PressClips
  • Public Sphere
  • Ralph Egbu
  • Shola Oshunkeye
  • Sideview
  • South-west Magazine
  • Sponsored Post
  • Sporting Sun
  • Sports
  • Sun Girl
  • Tea Time
  • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
  • The Sun Awards Live
  • The Sun TV
  • Thoughts & Talks
  • Time Out
  • Today's cover
  • Tola Adeniyi
  • Travel
  • Travel & Tourism
  • Trending
  • TSWeekend
  • Turf Game
  • Uncategorized
  • Updates
  • Views from Abroad
  • Voices
  • World
  • World News
  • About Us
  • Paper Ad Rate
  • Online Ad Rate
  • Change of Name
  • The Team
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy

© 2019 The Sun Nigeria - Managed by Netsera.

No Result
View All Result
  • National
  • Columns
    • Broken Tongues
    • Capital Matters
    • Diabetes Corner
    • Duro Onabule
    • Femi Adesina
    • Frank Talk
    • Funke Egbemode
    • Insights
    • Kalu Leadership Series
    • Kunle Solaja
    • Offside Musings
    • PressClips
    • Public Sphere
    • Ralph Egbu
    • Shola Oshunkeye
    • Sideview
    • The Flipside – Eric Osagie
    • Tola Adeniyi
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • The Sun TV
  • Sporting Sun
  • The Sun Foundation

© 2019 The Sun Nigeria - Managed by Netsera.