Call Senator Hope Uzodinma of IMO to Order - Okiye Urges PMB

By Simeon OSAJIE

The Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye has call on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and the presidency to urgently call the executive governor of Edo Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma and stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress in Edo State to order for their plan to import fake mace to take over the Edo State House of Assembly working in cahoots with Deputy Speaker, Hon. Idiaye Yekini, who of recent declared support for the candidate of the APC to congregate in a secret location to illegally and violently take over control of the Assembly.

In a world press conference address by Speaker Frank Okiye and members of the Edo State House of assembly alleged that the Imo governor, Senator Uzodinma, Hon. Idiaye Yekini and others are working hard to execute this illegal plan.

He said: "We call on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and the presidency to urgently call this governor and others working with him to execute this illegal plan to desist 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 campaigns.  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 force.

"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 Assembly.

"We are, as always, committed to the protection of the democracy rights of our people as the legislature remains a sacred institution in the democratisation  process" the statement concluded.