The ongoing crisis in the Ondo State House of Assembly yesterday took a new twist as the Ondo State police command sealed off the Assembly complex.
The closure of the Assembly complex according to investigation, was to prevent a fracas which would have occurred at the Assembly between two warring factions laying claim to the leadership of the hallow chamber.
Some aggrieved members of the House of Assembly had on Friday impeached the speaker, Rt Hon. Jumoke Akindele , deputy speaker, Hon. Fatai Olutu and majority leader, Hon. Dayo Akinsoyinu over allegation of financial mismanagement.
They hurriedly appointed Hon. Malachi Coker representing Ilaje Constituency 1, Hon. Ayodele Arowele from Owo Constituency 1 and Hon. Olamide George, representing Akure North Constituency as the speaker, deputy speaker and majority leader respectively in acting capacity.
But the embattled speaker had insisted that she remains the speaker because her removal did not meet the constitutional requirement.
To this end, the legislators loyal to Hon. Malachi Coker yesterday’s morning gained entrance to the Assembly premises as early as 6:00 a.m. and the acting speaker immediately sat on the speaker’s seat in readiness for the day’s plenary.
The Akindele’s faction later stormed the Assembly and the embattledspeaker personally challenged Coker that he has no right to sit on the peaker’s seat.
But Coker told her she is no longer the Assembly speaker because she had been impeached. This resulted to altercation between the two factions.
It was the quick intervention of police led by the state Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison, that prevented break down of law and order .
The security operatives who were already at the Assembly premises immediately ordered the lawmakers including the workers out of the Assembly complex
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