The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Frank Okiye, has been impeached.
Okiye’s impeachment notice was signed by nine out of the 10-member Assembly.
Though details of what led to the impeachment are still sketches, sources claimed that Okiye would have been removed last week but for the last-minute intervention by Governor Godwin Obaseki.
The Edo Assembly, as it is presently constituted, is made up seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members and three All Progressive Congress (APC) members.
Fourteen other members-elect stayed off the inauguration of the House on June 17, 2019, when Governor Obaseki issued the proclamation for the inauguration of the legislative arm.
While the 14 others had on August 6, 2020, inaugurated themselves at a private residence in the Ugbor GRA, in Benin, where they elected Victor Edoror as the Speaker.
Okiye had decamped to the PDP alongside six other members, while the remaining three members, who participated in the June 2019 inauguration, remain in the APC.