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Edo Assembly Crisis: Malami biased, abused law – Obaseki

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Don-Pedro Obaseki, has fingered the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami of abusing the law and being complicit in the crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly.

Obaseki, speaking during Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily show on Monday, said Malami’s response to the crisis engulfing the state parliament has revealed what side of the political divide he supports.

“I will state clearly that Mr. Malami has shown himself as a law officer, as a most-partisan one who decides to speak depending on what part of the (political) party divide he is on. What he has done is a flagrant abuse of the law,” he said.

Also, Obaseki accused the 14 newly sworn-in members of the assembly of forging a mace used during their inauguration and called for their arrest.

While noting that the original mace is with the Speaker of the House Francis Okiye, the PDP member described the situation as “treasonable”.

“They have gone to forge a mace. When you forge a mace, you are forcefully taking over a part of the government.

“That is treasonable. The original mace still lies with the Speaker, Mr Okiye. The Department of State Service should go and arrest them. They are a threat to the state,” he said.

He explained that the House of Assembly is only proclaimed once and that has already been done earlier by Governor Godwin Obaseki.

His remarks came on the heel of an invasion of the assembly complex by unknown persons who removed the mace.

Shortly after, 17 lawmakers, including 14 members whose seats had been declared vacant, claimed that they have impeached the Speaker of the House, Okiye and his deputy, Roland Asoro.

Monday Ashibogwu

Monday Michaels Ashibogwu is Editor-In-Chief of QUICK NEWS AFRICA, one of Nigeria's leading online news service.

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