Chris Nehikhare
February 20, 2010 the then Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, took a trip to Calabar, Cross River State. Before he left, he had “mobilized” APC members of the state House of Assembly to strike and effect a change in the leadership. Oshiomhole took that trip for the sake of plausible deniability. APC had 12 members, so did PDP. APC membership grew to 12 through defection of a couple of PDP members. The speaker before the “purchased defection” was PDP. PDP had majority in the house and it was able to produce the speaker at the time the house was inaugurated. The constitutional requirement is clear, you need 2/3 majority to impeach the speaker or the deputy speaker!
Oshiomhole who wanted a puppet speaker began to scheme. He calculated that the tenure of the assembly was coming to a close. He knew for a…
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