The House of Representatives, on Friday extended the one-week ultimatum to Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo to re-issue proclamation for the inauguration of the House of Assembly, to one month.
A member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Media and Publicity of the House, Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau), made this known at a news briefing in Abuja.
The Green Chamber had, on July 17, given Obaseki one week to issue a fresh proclamation in line with Section 105(3) of the Constitution.
The lawmakers also directed that the governor should publish the date, time and venue of the inauguration in any national newspaper and television station.
This was the part of the report of the committee on the “Need for Intervention in Edo House of Assembly Crisis’’ presented at plenary.
Gagdi explained that the extension was to allow the house to merge the committee’s report with that of its counterpart that investigated the Bauchi State House of Assembly crisis, to get Senate’s concurrence.
“If you look at the report of the Bauchi case, there is an item that states that the house transmits its recommendations to the Senate”, NAN quoted her as saying.
“In a situation where there are two committees put in place by the house and the senate, position of both chambers have to be put together.
“That is why the committee investigating the Bauchi crisis was given one month and the Speaker considered that the Edo report should be treated the same way.
“Also, that report for Edo should be harmonised with that of the Senate after which we will wait and see if the position of the senate concurs with that of the house.
“From the day the senate takes position on these two states and the governors refuse to act accordingly, definitely we are going to invoke the provision of Section 11(4) of the Constitution.”
