House of Rep Members Visit Kogi to Solve Assembly Crisis

House of Rep Members Visit Kogi to Solve Assembly Crisis

In a bid to settle the lingering crisis rocking the Kogi State House of Assembly, the fact finding committee from the House of Representative today stormed Lokoja, urging the aggrieved parties to maintain the provision of the constitution pending the time the committee resolve the crisis.

The leader of the fact finding committee, Hon. Pally Iriase, who is the Deputy Chief Whip, disclosed this to journalists after a closed-door meeting with the state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, at the Government House.

He explained that the state House of Assembly has been enmeshed in leadership crisis for quiet sometime, stressing that the committee was in the state to meet with all the stakeholders with a view to resolving the lingering crisis and ensure the state move forward.

On whether the committee has received an interlocutory injunction granted the other faction, Iriase stated that the committee has not receive any injunction, stressing that the committee members would not take injunction from television flashing news bar and there is difference between filing papers seeking injunction and granting injunction.

He stated that if federal high court in Lokoja had granted such interlocutory injunction the committee would have been properly served.  

The chairman however assured the assembly that the committee would get to root of the matter and reunite the factions in the assembly for the benefit of the people of state.

Also speaking, the Governor, Bello, promised to cooperate with the delegation from the National Assembly which is currently on a facts finding mission towards the resolution of the lingering crisis rocking the assembly.

Bello who commended the efforts of the National Assembly to intervene on the crisis, said it was a welcome development that would help the state to move forward.