Ondo Assembly Crisis: Lawmakers suspend planned speaker’s removal, probe legislature’s finances as APC intervenes
Members of the Ondo State House of Assembly have suspended the planned removal of its Speaker, Olamide Oladiji, following the intervention of the leadership of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
PREMIUM TIMES reported that 21 members of the House recently demanded Mr Oladiji’s resignation or face forceful removal over allegations of misconduct and mishandling of N44 million largesse from the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC).
Meanwhile, the secretary of the Ondo APC, Alex Kalejaye, confirmed the intervention of party leadership, noting that the crisis was a backlash of the contentious primaries.
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