We deliver your news brief for Wednesday, October 22, 2014.
The Zamfara House of Assembly has endorsed the impeachment of five legislators in the state who defected from All Progressives Congress (APC) to People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The endorsement was done at the plenary on Wednesday, presided over by the Speaker, Alhaji Sunusi Rikiji, following a motion moved by the Majority Leader of the house, Alhaji Salisu Tsafe.
Tsafe, while moving the motion, urged the assembly to declare the seats of the defected councillors vacant, based on the resolutions of the local government councils of the defecting councillors.
A group, Ekiti Democratic Coalition, has alleged that 15 All Progressives Congress members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly have been bribed with N800m to impeach the State Governor, Ayodele Fayose.
The group made the allegation in a release issued on Wednesday and signed by its Coordinator, Comrade Aderemi Olaleye.
It alleged that the lawmakers met with a national leader of the party and a former Governor of the State in Lagos on Tuesday, where the directive was given.
EDC alleged that each of the lawmakers got N50m while the Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin, got N100m.
Senate President, David David Mark, on Wednesday dismissed reports that the Peoples Democratic Party Integration Committee for the South West was plotting to impose a governorship candidate on the Oyo State chapter of the party.
He spoke in Abuja against the backdrop of an allegation by a group of PDP members known as Rescue Team 2015 that the Senate President-led integration committee was planning to impose a candidate on the state.
But Mark, according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, denied the rumours when he met with stakeholders from the state at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa.
The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, has said intimidation and coercion by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in the state would not force him to abandon the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Speaker said no level of harassment, financial inducement or persecution would make him betray the people who voted him into office through the APC.
Reacting to closure of his filling station in Ado-Ekiti on the purported orders of Governor Ayodele Fayose, Omirin said he fulfilled all necessary environmental laws in siting the filling station.
In a response, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, said the Speaker was not truthful in his allegations, adding, “the essence of the closure was to ensure sanity within the state capital and Ekiti at large.”
Ogun State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Roqeeb Adeniji, on Tuesday lost his wife, Rachael, in an auto crash.
Rachael who was a deaconess was aged 58.
She was said to have died after the driver of a car she was travelling in to Abeokuta lost control. The car somersaulted around Akinale, in Ewekoro Local Government.
She was returning to Abeokuta after attending Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s assessment tour to Ifo Local Government.
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