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Explain Edo State Assembly Tussle – APC Fires Obaseki

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) Media Campaign Council for the Edo Governorship election has denied being behind the police siege on the Edo State House of Assembly.

Naija News reports that operatives of the Nigeria Police on Thursday took over the Edo State House of Assembly complex in Benin City.

The security officials stormed the complex while patrol vehicles were stationed around the area.

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Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations), Ayoola Ajala, led the operation.

It was gathered that the move was to forestall an alleged planned attack on the facility.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while reacting to the invasion, accused the APC of deploying police to the Assembly due to the surging popularity of Governor Godwin Obaseki.

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But in a statement by John Mayaki, the Chairman of the State Media Campaign Council, said that the APC, as a political party, does not control the Police.

Mayaki accused Obaseki of carrying out several onslaughts against the legislative arm of government by attacking its members-elect and denying them representation.

He said the Edo State government was in the best position to tell the world who is behind the Police blockade on the Assembly.

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He said: “It is a known fact that the outgoing Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has treated the House of Assembly, an independent and co-equal branch of government, as a mere extension of his office through the brutalization of members-elect and the denial of representation to the majority of members.”

“In Gestapo style, the outgoing Governor hijacked a tiny minority and purportedly inaugurated them in the dead of the night. The sham inauguration was condemned and set aside by both arms of the National Assembly after their separate investigations revealed that the members, and indeed the Clerk, were forced to participate in the illegality under threat to life.”

“With these criminal antecedents, we believe if there is any unwholesome activity ongoing at the Assembly Complex, it is Mr. Godwin Obaseki who is in the best position to explain to the world what is going on and why.”

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, or the APC, does not control the Police. When Obaseki went to obtain a questionable court order challenging the position of Comrade as the APC National Chairman months back, he was locked out of the National HQ of the party in Abuja. If indeed he has any control over the Police, wouldn’t he have instructed them to leave and grant him entry?”

“The Edo State Government should explain to the world and Edo people what is going on. And they can start by explaining why a branch of government meant to carry out oversight functions and check the excesses of the Executive arm has been holding plenary inside the Government House for months over a supposed ‘fumigation and renovation exercise’ at the Assembly Complex’.”