Members of the House of Representatives were divided on Wednesday over the alleged deployment of 3,500 soldiers in Edo State by the Federal Government for Saturday’s governorship poll.
The development caused a delay in the proceedings for some minutes.
The session became rowdy when the majority Peoples Democratic Party members tried to shout down a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria who complained about the troop deployment.
The lawmaker, Mr. Bimbo Daramola from Ekiti State, had raised a matter of urgent public importance to draw the attention of the House to the troop deployment.
Daramola said since there was no war in Edo State, he could not understand the essence of deploying 3,500 soldiers for the election.
“This is a constitutional matter, Mr. Speaker,” he said, but was shouted down.
The Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, came to his aid by advising members to allow Daramola to make his point.
However, when the matter was put to vote, Daramola was defeated in a majority “nay” voice vote.
After the ruling, some members started shouting “PDP, power”, “PDP, power and for some minutes, the lawmakers became unruly.
# Na wa o! See the kind of reps we have. Quoting Linda's write up: "I see! How we ended up with clowns as 'rulers' still beats me!" #
No comments:
Post a Comment