There are indications of fresh
crisis between principal officers and members of the Oyo State House of
Assembly over whom to benefit from the delivery of nine (9) newly supplied
official cars among the members.
It was gathered that principal
officers on Tuesday insisted on being the beneficiaries of the first set of
official cars bought for the assembly members almost two years after the
inauguration of the eight assembly, a situation that did not gone well with
floor members.
At the parliamentary caucus
meeting held on Tuesday that lasted till 3pm, it was gathered that the bone of
contention was who should be the beneficiaries of the vehicles.
A source at the meeting said that
while the principal officers insisted that they would be the first set to
benefit from it, other members suggested that the beneficiaries should be among
the ordinary members.
The assembly is made up of 32
members, including the Speaker, Hon. Michael Adeyemo and the Deputy, Hon. Musah
Abduwash who were excluded having gotten their own official vehicles.
It was also learnt that another
nagging issue causing division among the members is the presentation of the
report of the Committee that investigated the allegation of the swearing in of
two un-cleared local government caretaker chairmen for Irepo Local Government,
Asabari Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Mr Mudasir Agbaje, and Taiwo
Adeleke respectively and swapping of Mr Akeem Aransi with Mr Abiodun Oladeji
for Lagelu West LCDA.
However it was gathered that
Governor Abiola Ajimobi had held a closed door meeting with the lawmakers with
a view to amicably resolving the perceived imbroglio between the two arms.
During the meeting, it was learnt
that the governor promised to immediately release the official vehicles to the
lawmakers as well as give them their parcels of land within the Government
Reserved Areas (GRAs).
According to the report, the
committee recommended that the Executive Arm of government should tender unreserved
apology to the house for flouting the directives of the house, which is against
the principle of separation of power.
It was gathered that the Speaker
not satisfied with this aspect of the recommendations, made an appeal for its
outright removal from the report, which did not go down well with the members
of the House, especially the members of the Ethics and Privileges Committee
that investigated the matter.
It was discovered that the
members have now prepared for a showdown with the speaker at the plenary slated
for tomorrow (Thursday) if the original report of the committee is not allowed
to be presented.
But two members who were called
on Wednesday evening said it was not true that members were having crisis over
the purchase of cars.
A member representing Ogbomoso North, Hon.
Olawumi Oladeji and her counterpart from Ibadan North 11, Hon. Olusegun Olaleye
said the rumour was not true.
Oladeji said that “I am not aware
of that.”
Olaleye in his reaction said “There
is nothing like that, quote me, mention my name, there is nothing like that.”
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