Senate to Obaseki: Re-inaugurate Edo Assembly in one week, or we'll take over -

The Senate has given Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State one week ultimatum to issue a fresh proclamation for the inauguration of the state House of Assembly.

This is coming barely a week after the House of Representatives issued a similar directive to the Edo governor.

In his response, Obaseki had said, “How can I as governor, conduct an election and someone will cancel it and he goes and throwing all set of people in there; and now wants to use the new people to remove me from office; and you want me to keep quiet?”

But giving its directive during Tuesday’s plenary, the red chamber also said if the governor fails to do so within a week, the National Assembly should invoke its powers as contained in the Constitution by taking over legislative functions of the Edo State House of Assembly.

The Senate reached the resolution after the adoption of the report of the Senate ad hoc committee on the Edo State House of Assembly crisis, presented by its chairman, Senator Sabi Abdullahi.