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  • Primaries: PDP raises panel to screen Reps

    Primaries: PDP raises panel to screen Reps

    The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced last night that it has set up a “special” committee to screen its serving members of the National Assembly in Abuja Thursday and Friday.

    A statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, stressed that the screening is meant for members seeking the party’s return ticket; “owing to the scheduled resumption of the House of Representatives on Thursday.

    “All such members of the National Assembly are by this advised to appear before the special screening panel at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja with their relevant documents for the screening on the above-mentioned dates”, the statement added.

    Critics last night, said the move was meant to “work on” the legislators on critical issues, in the overall interest of the ruling party.

    But the party said it’s to enable the lawmakers participate in the National Assembly sitting, as well as the screening.

  • Zangon Kataf elders, stakeholders back Katung

    Zangon Kataf elders, stakeholders back Katung

    As the National Assembly primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) draw closer, the council of elders and stakeholders in Southern Kaduna have backed the aspiration of former Commissioner of Finance and Water Resources, Sunday Marshal Katung, for Jaba/Zangon Kataf in the House of Representatives.

    The decision was reached at a stakeholders’ and elders’ meeting of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area.

    They agreed that the incumbent, Godfrey Ali Gaiya, from Jaba Local Government Area, had served two terms and needed to give way to somebody from Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, based on a rotational agreement between the two local governments.

    The meeting, which was summoned by the PDP Chairman in Zangon Kataf local government, Gaiya Yunusa, was attended by the party’s Secretary Sam Basa, House of Assembly member Esther Abba, Elder J. B. Ayok, Elder Samaila Dambo, Elder Dominic Gambo Yahaya, Dr. Baba Usman, Information Commissioner Ben Bako, Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Matthew Gwaza; former Local Government Commissioner Yohanna Allahmagani, among others.

    The meeting was also attended by former local government chairmen with serving and former lawmakers from the area.

    The elders urged the four aspirants for the constituency to present their blueprints.

     

     

    After listening to their presentations, the elders agreed that Katung’s blueprint was more realisable because it addressed the yearnings and aspirations of the people.

    A former chairman of Zangon Kataf Local Government, Elder Samaila Dambo, said there was need to present only one candidate at the primary to contest with the incumbent, who is also seeking a third term.

    Dambo urged the delegates from the local government to vote for the preferred candidate, whose track record in public and private sectors was not in question.

    On the other three aspirants, who refused to step down for Katung, the meeting resolved not to stop their aspiration but to work for the emergence of Katung as the sole candidate from Zangon Kataf Local Government.

    The chairman of the local government, who is also eyeing the constituency’s seat, Christopher Haruna, threatened to support Gaiya, if he was not supported to win the party’s primaries.

     

     

  • PDP’s, Omisore’s witness: I didn’t observe rigging

    PDP’s, Omisore’s witness: I didn’t observe rigging

    Bola Ajao, the first witness of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday gave evidence before the Election Petition Tribunal.

    Ajao, who is the PDP Secretary, told the tribunal that voters were allowed to be accredited and voted freely in the election.

    He was cross-examined by counsel to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Charles Edosonwan, Yomi Aliu, and Ayotunde Ogunleye.

    Ajao said his claim on the alleged rigging of the election was not witnessed by him, adding, “I was told by my party agents”.

    Responding to questions from Edonsonwan, he said: “I got to my Ward 8, Unit 9 of Ifelodun Local Government at 6:30 am on the election day, accreditation started by 8am and voting started at 12:30 pm.

    “I passed through the same process and I voted on that day. I did not leave my unit until after the election. My party lost in my polling unit. My testimonies on other units that our party is challenging are based on what I was told by my agents. I was not there.

    “Omisore contested for a senatorial slot in 2011, but lost along with other party candidates. We did not challenge the election in court. I don’t know the number of polling units we are challenging.”

    While being cross-examined by INEC’s counsel, Ajao said he followed all the processes required from accreditation to voting, adding that after accreditations, people were allowed to vote.

    In his answer to the question from APC counsel, the witness confirmed to the tribunal that the result sheets for each of the local governments in contention were signed by PDP supervisors on the election day.

    The second and third witnesses, Kolapo Sikiru and Gbadebo Adeyemo, who claimed to be PDP ward supervisors in Ward 1 and Ward 2 of Osogbo Local Government, confirmed that their polling agents signed the result forms for each of the units, except for a few.

    Contrary to his claim that the result sheets of unit 2,3,4 and 5 of Ward 2 were not signed by his party agent, as deposed to in his witness statement, Gbadebo was confronted with the duplicate result for the units that were tendered by the petitioners’ counsel which bore the signature of the agents and the witness was dumbfounded.

    At this point, there were altercations between counsel to the petitioners and the first respondents, as the former accused the latter of interjecting the cross-examination of the witnesses at the detriment of the 20 minutes permitted to cross-examine the witness.

    The intervention of the judges brought the altercations under control.

    Edosonwan and Ogunleye said the testimonies of the petitioners’ witnesses had vindicated the respondents that the petition had no merit.

    They were optimistic that more of such vindication would unfold in the course of cross-examining other witnesses.

     

     

  • Ekiti Speaker’s aide alleges threat to life

    Ekiti Speaker’s aide alleges threat to life

    Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Wole Olujobi has alleged threats to his life.

    He called on President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in Ekiti State to spare his life.

    Olujobi, in a statement, said he had been receiving calls to leave Ekiti State over reports of plans to attack him.

    The aide, who said he would have ignored the calls, said he was calling the President’s attention because of reports of “strange men loitering around my home at Ijan-Ekiti last night whose mission was not known”.

    Olujobi recalled the relationship between him and government leaders in the past over the roles he played in reporting the events leading to the assassination of his cousin, Dr. Ayodeji Daramola, on August 14, 2006.

    He said his purported sack as the Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker by Governor Ayo Fayose was a reprisal for reporting and telling the police all the events that led to the death of his cousin.

    Olujobi insisted that he and others purportedly sacked still remained the Speaker’s aides because the governor does not have the power to remove them.

    He said the House of Assembly was an independent arm of government that enjoys autonomy from the Executive.

    “The sacking of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker’s aides is a smokescreen. I am the target of the sack. The governor still sees me as his enemy who contributed to his impeachment.

    “My problem is that I told Nigerians and the world how my cousin was haunted to death during Fayose’s first stint as governor.

    “Dr Daramola told me how he was forced to renounce his governorship ambition on the state media. His voice was heard six times a day on the state media renouncing his ambition. We have all the records till today.

    “Few days ago, suspects arrested in connection with the assassination were reportedly missing in Ado-Ekiti prison where they had been held since 2006.

    “Four days after my cousin’s assassination, two men visited my house demanding to see me. They claimed that they gave me money to help them publish a story.

    “My co-tenant, who they met at the gate, suspected foul play and deceived them that there was no journalist living in the house.

    “I reported the incident at Ebenezer Police Station at Ojokoro, Lagos and office of the then Lagos Police Commissioner, Emmanuel Adebayo, who is now the Elemure of Emure Ekiti.

    “The next day, I received a threat text message sent through an MTN line, 08068978526. Later, some suspects were arrested, including Taye Olanipekun, who my neighbour identified as one of the men, who came to my house.

    “I am calling on the President to prevail on the powers-that-be in Ekiti State to save me. I also urge my colleagues to continue to push for the restoration of sanity in Ekiti State that is fast slipping into brigandage after four years of uninterrupted peace.”

     

  • Enugu PDP delegates seek dissolution of state executive committee

    Enugu PDP delegates seek dissolution of state executive committee

    The elected delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State have called on the National Working Committee to dissolve the State Working Committee and set up a Caretaker Committee to save the party from disintegrating before the elections.

    The delegates alerted the national leadership and members to the alleged plan by Governor Sullivan Chime and local government chairmen to destabilise the party and defect to another party.

    A petition containing these allegations, entitled: “Team Chime: The Mole Exposed”, was addressed to PDP’s national chairman and signed by Emeka Aneke and Chief Frank Anioma, chairman and secretary on behalf of  the Enugu PDP delegates.

    The delegates said the injunction granted by the chief judge purportedly restraining the party from acting on the delegates’ list was aimed at truncating the peace brokered by President Goodluck Jonathan and frustrate the party in the election.

    “When “Team Chime” invited members of PDP Ward Executive Committee, stakeholders and supporters through SMS to the court of the chief judge of Enugu State on November 13, it was clear that the enemy has decided to unleash an attack on the party.

    “The infamous injunction and various subterranean moves seeking to undermine the acting chairman of the PDP, Elder David Aja, from carrying out his duties is a manifestation that Team Chime is indeed on a mission impossible against PDP.

    “It is now established that the governor is working with agents of destruction to ensure that PDP does not present candidates for the 2015 elections, while he plans to field candidates on another party platform. He is boasting that he has bought over the national chairman and that the national chairman is not only aware of what he is doing but actually advising him in all his plans”.

     

  • Enugu PDP disowns Congress Appeal Committee

    Enugu PDP disowns Congress Appeal Committee

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State has described as unfortunate and baseless comments credited to the “so called members of the Appeal Committee” for the non-conduct of November 1 Ward Congresses.

    The party faulted alleged statements by the committee that there was no complaint, either written or verbal, throughout the period of its assignment.

    In a statement by the state publicity secretary, Dr. Okey Eze, it said:  “In view of the endemic nature of the style of political desperation, mischief, blackmail and blatant lies being peddled by a few members of our party in Enugu State that Ward Congresses of our party took place in the State on November 1, 2014, which has now culminated into a wild falsehood, as was orchestrated by the Appeal Committee to further mislead the public and stop the National Leadership from rising up to its responsibility of fixing a new date for the Enugu State Ward Congresses, we feel highly compelled in the face of utter provocation to state as follows:

    ‘That it is mischievous, baseless, false and unfounded for the Appeal Committee to allege that no complaints on the Enugu State Ward Congress was received by them, when in the first instance, the Committee did not follow due process and laid down procedures which among others, require their presence and official sitting at the State Party Secretariat at No. 1 Chime Lane, G.R.A, Enugu, where complainants are to present their complaints.

    ‘That the Appeal Committee neither visited the official venue for the sitting of the panel, which is the State Party Secretariat, Enugu nor engaged in any administrative procedure for the exercise as directed by the National Secretariat, such as issuance of notices at strategic locations at the party secretariat, requesting party members with complaints to come and lay them before the committee as has been the tradition.

    ‘That the exercise as allegedly carried out by the Appeal Committee, which is hereby denied in its entirety, is a nullity and does not reflect the position of things as to what transpired in Enugu State on November 1, 2014 and throughout the period they alleged to have stayed in the State and we stand by our position that no Ward Congress took place in Enugu State on November 1, 2014, as admitted in Court by the National Secretariat.’

    The party challenged the Appeal Committee to come up with any credible evidence that they visited the state’s party secretariat at No. 1 Chime lane, G.R.A, Enugu for the assignment or put members on notice about the assignment by issuing notices at the State Secretariat, thereby affording aggrieved party members their inalienable right to fair hearing.

     

    It dismissed “the trumped-up report of the Appeal Committee as without basis and values and should be discountenanced.

     

     

  • I’ll be a formidable senator, says Seriki

    I’ll be a formidable senator, says Seriki

    A former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant and now All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial aspirant for Lagos West, Demola Seriki, has said he will be a formidable senator, “not by definition or by title, but through meaning”.

    Seriki spoke yesterday when he visited the House of Assembly to solicit members’ support.

    The former minister said there was need to strengthen the legislative institution “so as to strengthen our democracy”.

    “Through the legislature, we can strengthen democracy because legislative business emanates from experience and knowledge.

    “It is like a school on its own. It is an institution, which all of us must collectively build together.”

    Though he is from Lagos Central, he said he was contesting from Lagos West because senatorial election was a state wide matter and should therefore not be by zone or constituency.

    “I am a proponent of state wide election. Senate is supposed to be a state wide election.

    “It is really myopic and it is really wrong for us to have Lagos East, Lagos West, you can’t have people going for US Senate and saying New York West, New York East, nothing like that

    . I am a native Lagosian, I am from Agege, I am from Badagry, I am from Isheri, I am from Island, I am from Ojokoro, I am from Arogangan, so I can claim I  come from anywhere within Lagos metropolis, you cannot limit where I can come from because I am a native Lagosian, a descendant of Awori.”

    Describing APC as a new party, Seriki said it is a new amalgamation, “cutting across all races in Nigeria, all tribes in Nigeria and it is like a plc, a gathering of a party and we are ready to take the  presidency of the country, to take over the central government.”

     

     

     

  • PDP sacks Adamawa, Ebonyi excos

    PDP sacks Adamawa, Ebonyi excos

    The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sacked its executive committees in Adamawa and Ebonyi states.

    The National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, told reporters yesterday that the excos were sacked for conducts inimical to the party and capable of disorganising and undermining party directives.

    He said: “To maintain discipline and show the supremacy of the party and in furtherance of running a lawful, orderly and responsible state organs, we have decided to dissolve the state executive committees of Adamawa and Ebonyi states.

    “We urge members in those states to disregard the publications of the results of the ward congresses made by those two state executives. Our members should disregard them as not being authorised and not coming from a proper custody.”

    The party’s action is coming on the heels of protest by 11 PDP governorship aspirants in Imo State calling for the cancellation of the ward congress results.

    According to the aspirants, the results were concocted by a certain group even when the congress did not hold in any part of the state.

    Speaking on behalf of the aggrieved aspirants at a news briefing in Abuja yesterday, one of the aspirants, Chief Mike Ahamba, urged the party to conduct fresh ward congresses in the state.

    They warned that if the party failed to conduct a fresh congress, any candidate, who emerged from the flawed congress, would not enjoy their support.

    Stating that it’s the turn of the Owerri zone to produce the governorship candidate, the aspirants warned that the PDP risked losing the state to the opposition just as it did in 2011.

    The aggrieved aspirants are: Senator Chris Anyanwu, Prof. Jude Njoku, Mr. Charles Onyeagbako, Dr. Charles Amanze and Sen. Bright Nwanne.

    Others are: Mr. Bethel Amadi, Ken Njamanze, Lady Clara Njoku, Charles Onuoha and Humphrey Anumudu.

     

     

  • SERAP charges APC, PDP to disclose spending

    SERAP charges APC, PDP to disclose spending

    The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has requested the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as well as All Progressive Congress (APC), to formally release costs of spending incurred in their efforts geared towards the 2015 General election.

    Adetokunbo Mumuni, Executive Director of SERAP, in two separate letters dated 18 November, 2014, and addressed to Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, PDP National Chairman and Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the APC National Chairman, requested the parties to publicly present information about the spending on the electoral campaigns and other operations in line with the February 2015 elections.

    The Civil society group, SERAP hinged its request letter on Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) of 2011, when it said: “Under the FOI Act, your party is under a binding legal obligation to provide the applicant with the information requested for, except as otherwise provided by the Act, within 7 days after the application is received.”

    Similarly, SERAP maintained that “If the requested information is not provided to us within 14 days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter, the Registered Trustees of SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions under the Freedom of Information Act to compel you and your party to comply with our request,”.

    Embittered about the risks and increase in corrupt practices around the country during electoral campaigns for the general elections, the group expressed dedicated worries, especially the role of money in politics and the persistent failure generally to comply with national and international law on political party finance.

    In addition, the Executive Director further stressed that Nigerians have the right to know about spending by political parties especially the major parties “like your party with a strong possibility to assume government in the future. Citizens should be able to examine financial transactions of parties and be certain that politicians are working for their voters, not their benefactors.”

    However, SERAP noted that the parties cannot claim a strange position from the FOI Act, saying “to do so will seriously undermine citizens’ trust in their political parties and lack of trust will inevitably destroy confidence in the system and decrease citizens’ interest and participation in democratic processes.”

    The letter signed by the Executive Director, reads: “We believe that without free and fair elections there can be no democracy. However, elections are only one part of the democratic process, and a fair and effective electoral system must be founded in an adequate democratic infrastructure and responsibility of political leaders.

    “Therefore, releasing the information will help to address the perception among the citizens that the major political parties in the countries are less transparent and accountable. The lack of transparency and accountability in political finance is seriously undermining the legitimacy and credibility of the democratic and electoral processes, and invariably contributing to denying the citizens the right to effective participation in their own government.

    “Transparency, accountability, integrity and independence of political parties is also important to achieve greater transparency in public life, to curb the influence of money in politics, to promote a level playing field, and to remove the risks to the independence of political actors and would-be public office holders and the risks of conflicts of interest, including undue influence and corruption in the funding of political parties.”

    SERAP urged the parties to disclose information on the party’s comprehensively documented budget, covering the incomes and expenditures, with proper identification of its sources including those derived from federal, state and other institutions for the campaigns and other operations related to the February 2015 general elections.

    Quoting Sections 2, 3(d, V) and 4 of the FOI Act, civil group said: “there is a binding legal duty to ensure that documents containing the necessary information are widely disseminated and made readily available to members of the public through various means. The information being requested does not come within the purview of the types of information exempted from disclosure by the provisions of the FOI Act.”

    Consequently, the group opined that treading the path of transparency during campaigns could further promote informed voting by citizens who would have the needed information to make informed choices.

     

  • Anger as 7 PDP lawmakers endorse Fayose’s nominees

    Anger as 7 PDP lawmakers endorse Fayose’s nominees

    Under police cover and emboldened by a band of thugs, seven Ekiti Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers “sat” yesterday to approve three commissioner-nominees presented by Governor Ayodele Fayose.

    The action drew outrage.

    The lawmakers also empowered Fayose to appoint 12 special advisers and constitute caretaker committees for the 16 local governments, pending the conduct of the local government election.

    The seven PDP legislators were joined by three individuals whose identities could not be ascertained, in a bid to surpass a quorum of nine members needed to carry out a valid sitting  of the House as stipulated by the Constitution and the Assembly’s Standing Rules.

    Reporters were not allowed to go inside the chamber with cameras.

    The electronic media were prevented from covering the “sitting” –  apparently to shield  the three “unknown legislators”.

    The “sitting” was conducted under a massive security cover provided by mobile policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).

    A police Armoured Personnel Carrier marked NPF 5907 C and police pick-up vans were stationed outside the parliamentary building throughout the “sitting”.

    After the strange sitting, the nominees and the lawmakers were ferried into the Government House in a Toyota Coaster bus marked EKGH 111 with a massive security cordon woven around them.

    Fayose, in a letter dated November 11, which was addressed to the Speaker, requested the approval of the Assembly for the constitution of caretaker committees – a request that was rejected by the majority APC House members.

    A PDP lawmaker representing Ekiti East 2, Mr. Samuel Ajibola, told reporters shortly after the “sitting” that Speaker Adewale Omirin was on an assignment for his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Lagos. Deputy Speaker Taiwo Orisalade was on a campaign tour to his constituency (Ido/Osi 2), he said.

    Ajibola maintained that 10 legislators attended the “sitting” adding that they sat to ensure good governance, peace, progress and development of the state.

    But the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers have declared the “sitting” as illegal, unconstitutional, unparliamentary and a rape of the Constitution and the Standing Rules of the House.

    They called for the arrest and prosecution of the three impersonators who posed as members of the House to carry out an illegality in the parliamentary chambers.

    The APC Assemblymen said no sitting was slated for Monday and the House was not convoked by the Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin, who is constitutionally empowered to do so.

    The PDP lawmakers at the  sitting “elected” Mr. Dele Olugbemi who defected from the APC on October 16 during Fayose’s inauguration, as the protem speaker.

    Olugbemi, who represents Ikole 2 Constituency, shortly after his “election” presided over the session in which the three commissioner-nominees were screened and cleared.

    The nominees are Mr. Owoseni Ajayi for Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Kayode Oso (Works) and Mr. Toyin Ojo (Finance and Economic Development).

    The “sitting”, which started at about 10.00 am, saw the PDP lawmakers led by Ajibola who is the Minority Leader, conducting the business of the day.

    The seven PDP lawmakers who could be identified by reporters inside the chamber are: Ajibola, Olugbemi, Mr. Adeyinka Adeloye (Ikole 1), Mrs. Abeni Olayinka (Ado 2), Mrs. Ayo Olajide-Fatunbi (Moba 2), Mr. Olowo Ajiboye (Oye 2) and Mr. Alex Adeojo (Ekiti Southwest 2).

    Ajibola was the only PDP member in the House before Fayose returned to power on October 16. He was joined by the six who defected to the  ruling party on the day of the governor’s inauguration.

    But reporters struggled to identify the three other persons posing as lawmakers as none of the trio was seen immediately the “sitting” ended at about 10.40 am.

    Ajibola, who acted as Leader of Government Business in the House, hinged the action of the PDP lawmakers on Section 27 of the Standing  Order, which, according to him, gives the lawmakers powers to appoint a speaker pro-tempore in the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Soeaker.

    He argued that the protem speaker is empowered by the Standing Order to perform the function of the substantive Speaker when the first two principal officers are not around.

    Ajibola moved the motion  to allow the Sergeant-at-Arms to usher in the three nominees. Themotion was unanimously adopted by the lawmakers and their nomination was subsequently “ratified”.

    WE CONDUCTED A VALID SITTING-PDP CAUCUS

    Speaking with reporters shortly after the “sitting”, Ajibola denied that three unidentified persons joined the seven PDP lawmakers, adding that 10 lawmakers sat – a figure he described as greater than needed to form a quorum.

    “The quorum is nine and we had 10 members who attended the sitting of today. That shows that we formed a quorum. We don’t have PDP or APC in the House; we are all members of Ekiti State House of Assembly.

    “We make laws here and we treat issues brought before us in the overall interest of the people of the state.

    “The Deputy Speaker is on the field campaigning and Mr. Speaker is in Lagos for a party meeting. Section 27 of the Standing Order gives us the power to elect a protem speaker from among ourselves if the speaker and the deputy speaker are not around.

    “The law permits us to do so and what transpired today was a normal procedure.”

    SITTING, AN OUTRIGHT ILLEGALITY-APC CAUCUS

    The 19 APC lawmakers declared the sitting as an illegality, which violates the provisions of the Constitution and the House Standing Order.

    Speaking with The Nation on telephone, the Majority Leader, Mr. Churchill Adedipe, challenged the PDP lawmakers to identify the three individuals who posed as “honourable members”.

    Adedipe maintained that the 26-member parliament comprises 19 APC members and seven PDP members, wondering where the ruling party “recruited three thugs” to sit in the House in a “desperate bid to reach the quorum of nine”.

    Adedipe said the House does not hold plenary sitting on Mondays, maintaining that anything done in the hallowed chamber by PDP lawmakers and the three impostors was an exercise in futility.

    He likened the “sitting” to what took place during the tenure of the  Third Assembly when some PDP lawmakers who did not form a quorum conducted a “sitting at dawn” to screen and ratify nominees for the State Independent Electoral Commission (S.I.E.C).

    Adedipe recalled that the illegality was later nullified by the State High Court, expressing confidence that the latest illegality will not stand the  test of time as his party would challenge it.

    The majority leader also revealed that chairmen and members of caretaker committees in the 16 local government areas and 19 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) have filed a suit challenging their dissolution by Fayose, wondering why the PDP-led government couldn’t wait for the determination of the case before constituting new ones.

    Adedipe argued that it is in the Standing Order of the House that members should stay action on any issue that is before a court of competent jurisdiction.

    The Majority Leader, who represents Irepodun/Ifelodun 1 Constituency, said the action of Fayose and the PDP lawmakers was an attempt to foist a fait accompli on the court of law and a contemptuous breach of the 1999 Constitution.