Seventeen members of the Edo State House of Assembly have impeach the Speaker, Frank Okiye and elected Mr Victor Edoror as his successor.
The factional house of assembly members who are loyal to the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Adams Oshiomhole, also impeached the Deputy Speaker, Roland Asoro. Emmanuel Agbaje of Akoko Edo Constituency II was announced as the new deputy speaker of the assembly.
The 17 members include 14 members whose seats were formerly declared vacant and it became accumulated that the impeachment choice became taken at a personal vicinity with inside the state capital, hours after protection officers took over the State Assembly Complex and a few men attacked the building, destroying components of it.
It is unsure how this impeachment will play out because it became performed outdoor the meeting complicated and with out the meeting’s mace, the image of authority of the parliament, Edo State House of Assembly has been embroiled in a disaster considering 2019, one which has now been worsened with the aid of using the accumulation to the governorship elections within side the state.