No One Will Instruct Me How To Run State Assembly–Abia Speaker Tells PDP Lawmakers

By Sola Omoniyi, Lagos

The crisis rocking the Abia State House of Assembly continues to get interesting over the position of the principal of the Assembly.

The crisis started again on Tuesday, July 11, at the House after the speaker, Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Emeruwa recognized Hon. Uchenna Okoro, a member representing Arochukwu State Constituency as the Majority Leader of the House.

In a swift response, the member representing Obingwa East State Constituency Hon. Solomon Akpulonu raised a point of order and informed the Speaker that there is nothing like a Majority leader in the 8th Assembly and urged him to read the letter given to him by the Leadership of Peoples Democratic Party in the State.

The members of the 8th Assembly elected under the platform of PDP stood up and mandated the Speaker to read the letter as submitted by the Leadership of the Party in the State.

Responding, the Speaker informed the agitating members that the letter has been submitted and taken over by events and no one will tell him how to run the State Assembly.

The speaker then went further to suspend the plenary and left the flood of the house.

The 8th Abia State House of Assembly has been at war with itself for weeks now over the position of Principal Officers of the House.