Kwara Speaker declares Edu State Constituency seat vacant
Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Engr. Yakubu Danladi-Salihu, on Wednesday, declared the Edu State Constituency seat in the House vacant.
He declared the seat vacant at the plenary after reading a letter by Hon. Ndamusa Mohammed Guyegi, (Edu Constituency) on his defection from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
Ndamusa said in the letter that his defection was premised on the prolonged division and faction that paralyzed the APC since the inception of the present administration at the local government, state, and national levels.
However, the Speaker countered his claim, arguing that there was no division or faction within the ruling APC government from national to the ward levels that could warrant Ndamusa to defect to another political party having been elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said Ndamusa had breached Section 109(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) by vacating his seat.
The Speaker, therefore, directed the Clerk to the House, to communicate the development to the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Kwara State accordingly.
Ndamusa, becomes the second member of the House whose seat would be declared vacant by the Speaker of the House as a result of defection to another political platform.
Saheed Popoola's seat, (Ojomu/Balogun) was similarly declared vacant by the Speaker following his defection to the SDP recently.
Ndamusa, could not be reached at the time of this report on Wednesday as efforts to get his reaction on phone proved abortive while a text message sent to him was not replied to.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Kwara State Geographic Information Service Owo Isowo PharmAccess Foundation Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu Aliyu Sabi Oke-Odo National Association Of Nigerian Students Abdulmajeed Abdullahi Akeem Lawal PPS Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa Kayode Ogunlowo Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem Akorede Jimoh Olusola Imam Susan Modupe Oluwole Rabiu Kwankwaso Kayode Yusuf Yusuf Amuda Gobir Alimi Abdulrazaq Bayo Mohammed Onimode Bashirat Bola Bello Idi-Ape Damilola Yusuf Arandun Gbemisola Saraki Doyin Awoyale Rotimi Samuel Olujide Ishola Balogun Fulani Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development Tsaragi/Share Fatai Olodo Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu Shaykh Luqman Jimoh Wahab Isa Baba Isale Ibrahim Agboola Gambari Yusuf Aiyedun Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Mohammed Abdulahi Olayinka Jelili Yusuf Kwara Basketball Association Abdulrauf Yusuf Toyosi Thomas Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi Yusuf Olaolu Ali Suleiman Mora Omar Tsado Manman Sanusi Abubakar Wakilin Mata Lafiagi Tunji Arosanyin Kayode Alabi Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin Michael Ologundea Lawal Olohungbebe Egbejila BECE Abdulahi Abubakar Bata Ekweremadu Seun Bolaji Toyin Falola CACOVID Maryam Nurudeen Onilupeju Of Ilupeju Isiaka Saka Opobiyi Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd UNIFEMGA Cornelius Fawenu Igosun Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah Saba Mamman Daniel Peter Amogbonjaye Shettima Of Ilorin Nupe Maryam Ado Bayero Age AbdulKareem Moses Salami

