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Governor
Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has felicitated with messrs Victor Edoror and
Emmanuel Agbaje the new speaker and deputy speaker respectively of the Edo
State House of Assembly following their election by a majority of members in
the Edo State capital, Benin City. The Governor who spoke through a statement
released by Onogwu Mohammed, his Chief Press Secretary described the emergence
of the new principal officers as a welcome development while hoping that it
will mark the dawn of a new era of peace and focus for governance in Edo
State.
It
will be recalled that 17 members of the 24-man Edo assembly elected their new
leadership yesterday with a pledge to restore order to the state legislature
which had been embroiled in longstanding crises. Before then, 7 members
belonging to the PDP and allegedly backed by Godwin Obaseki, the embattled
Governor of the state, had taken over the duties of the assembly and purported
to impeach the former deputy speaker for declaring support for the APC.
Governor
Bello who said his state Kogi is very interested in peace within her neighbour
Edo noted that since both states share a long boundary line, any breakdown of law
and order in the latter was bound to cause security and other troubles for the
former. He therefore urged the new speaker and members of the Edo State House
of Assembly to swing into action immediately to restore order to the state
legislature and find ways to work with other arms of their government in the
best interests of Edo people.
On
the fast approaching September 19 Edo State Governorship Elections, the Kogi
State helmsman said Edo was an APC state which the roguish PDP wanted to snatch
away like a pickpocket eyeing someone's purse in the market. He assured the Edo
APC and her candidate Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of a resounding victory by the
grace of God and declared that he will always stand shoulder to shoulder with
them till Edo returned to the fold of progressives in the governing party.
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