Edo deputy Speaker, four lawmakers abandon Obaseki, declare support for Ize-Iyamu

By our reporter| The deputy speaker of Edo state house of assembly, Yekini Idiaye and four other lawmakers have declared their support for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

According to the lawmakers, their decision is to remain in the APC on whose platform they were elected, hence their decision not to the state governor, Godwin Obaseki in his new party, the PDP.

The lawmakers who were among 10 that were inaugurated in July 2019, also alleged that the state executive led by governor Obaseki has made the legislature irrelevant and unable to perform its functions as enshrined in the constitution.

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