The National Assembly management has placed its security on alert to deny access to Sen....
Ovie Omo-Agege who was suspended from Senate recently and has been alleged to be behind the invasion of the chamber by thugs who hijacked the mace during plenary.
But constituents of Delta Central
senatorial district have protested to the National Assembly expressing
solidarity with their Senator over they termed “illegal” suspension by
the Senate.
The Senator was suspended for 90
legislative days for accusing the Senate of reordering the sequence of
elections as a move against President Muhammadu Buhari, and also
claiming that the report on the bill was not endorsed by all members of
the Committee.
Reacting to this suspension, his
constituents, under the under the umbrella of Delta Central
Collective,
threatened that they would resort to individual or collective
representation.
The group chairman, Clever Akpovona Egbeji,
the Egbe of Abraka Kingdom, communicated their grievances in a letter
submitted to the Senate.
The letter reads: “On Thursday, April 12,
2018, you moved the Senate to again violate the letters and spirit of
the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended)
and other extant laws by purporting to suspend our Distinguished Senator
Ovie Omo-Agege from the Nigerian Senate for 90 legislative days. By
this act, you are now denying our over six (6) million people of Delta
Central Senatorial District representation in the Senate.
“In proper context, we have been
constructively and effectively expelled from the 8th Senate. We totally
reject this act of impunity as it violates our people’s inalienable
constitutional right to elect a Senator of their choice to represent
them.
“THAT we shall resort to SELF-or COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATION by coming
physically in our numbers to represent ourselves in the Senate, as our
removal, without any constitutional basis, from decision-making in the
Senate is a very clear existential threat to us in the Nigerian Nation.”
Meanwhile, It Was observed that the office of the Senator in question is under lock and key.
A Sergeant–at-arms who spoke in confidence stated that a directive was given to deny the Senator access into the complex.
He said: “We were told not to allow him into national assembly if he comes.”
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