Private legal practitioner and activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor has raised questions over the authority of the Speaker of , , in refusing to reconvene the House upon the request of the Caucus.
According to him, even though the recent declaration of the Speaker's announcement of four vacant seats as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court remains questionable, he doubts that the Speaker has the authority to refuse a request to reconvene the House. "I am not certain that the Speaker of has the power to defy the recall request under Article 112 of the Constitution.
Of course the Supreme Court (well mostly the Chief Justice) disgraced itself by actions that clearly lend weight to partisan accusations against the Court. "But I honestly do not think that the Constitution allows the Speaker to so defy the request.
No matter how infantile the request was.