The Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly, Hon. Francis Okiye has been Impeached.
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Okiye’s impeachment followed a motion by the Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Henry Okhurobo.
The impeachment letter was signed by the nine out of the 10-members who were present at the brief sitting on Monday.
Marcus Onobun, representing Esan West Constituency was immediately sworn in as the new Speaker.
Though details of what led to the impeachment are still sketches, our correspondent gathered that Okiye would have been removed last week but for the last-minute intervention by Governor Godwin Obaseki.
The Edo Assembly, as it is presently constituted, is made up seven Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, embers and three All Progressive Congress, APC, members.
14 other members-elect stayed off the inauguration of the House on June 17, 2019, when Governor Obaseki issued the proclamation for the inauguration of the legislative arm.
While the 14 others had on August 6, 2020, inaugurated themselves in a private residence at Ugbor GRA, of the state capital, Benin, where they elected Victor Edoror as the speaker.
Okiye, it would be recalled, had week decamped to the PDP alongside six other members, while the remaining three members, who participated in the June 2019 inauguration remain in the APC.
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