The senate says Ovie Omo-Agege,
senator representing Delta central, will not be prevented from resuming on
Tuesday.
Sabi Abdullahi, spokesman of the
upper legislative chamber, said this on Monday while reacting to the court
judgement which voided the suspension of Omo-Agege.
Omo-Agege had gone to court to
challenge his 90 legislative days suspension by the senate and the court in its
ruling declared the action unconstitutional, saying that the senate could not
suspend a member beyond 12 days .
His suspension was based on is
comment that amendment to section 25 of the electoral act, 2010 (as amended),
bordering on reordering of elections sequence was targeted at President
Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement, Abdullahi said as
an institution that has regards for the court, Omo-Agege would be given access
to the red chamber on Tuesday.
“The senate leadership has been
briefed by our lawyers on last Thursday judgement of the federal high court,
Abuja, on whether the Senate has the legal authority to suspend a member for
certain misconduct or not,” the statement read.
“We have equally filed an appeal
against the judgement of the court and a motion for stay of execution of the
judgement at the court of appeal.
“As an institution that obeys the
law and court orders, the Senate has decided that it will comply with the
judgement of the federal high court and do nothing to stop Senator Ovie
Omo-Agege from resuming in his office and at plenary from tomorrow May 15,
2018, pending the determination of the application for stay of execution.
“The senate has been advised that
since the motion for stay of execution of the Thursday (May 10, 2018) judgement
shall be heard and possibly determine on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, we shall
therefore respect the subsisting high court judgement and await the appellate
court decision on the pending motion.”
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