Reps threaten to take over Oyo Assembly
The House of Representatives has threatened to take over the activities of the Oyo State House of Assembly.
Preparatory to that, the House has constituted a committee to visit the state to find out the circumstances behind the crises in that Assembly.
The resolution was reached yesterday after the House adopted a motion moved by the ANPP Leader, Aminu Tambuwal on the lingering political crises that had polarised the House into two factions.
Tambuwal had told the House that the state Assembly had been taken over by hoodlums engaged by the two camps, who denied the members access to the chamber for their legislative activities.
He accused the police of collaboration, as according to him, they provided security for the hoodlums.
He called on the House to invoke section 11 of the constitution, which empowers the National Assembly to take over the responsibility of any state Assembly that could not perform its duties for any reason.
The House, he said, must act fast to resolve the crises in order not to allow what happened in Plateau State to happen in Oyo.
When asked to confirm Tambuwal’s submission, Rep. Wole Okediran (PDP-Oyo), said that due to the crises, the Assembly had not performed any legislative activity in the last one year, and noted the imminent break down of law and order in the state.
Okediran said that by taking over the Assembly, the hoodlums wanted to create a situation that would warrant declaration of state of emergency in the state.