Stoppage of allocations: Edo PDP, senator back Reps
Written by Uchechukwu Olisah and Ayodele Adesanmi Thursday, 04 November 2010
Besides, the PDP appealed to the Federal Ministry of Finance to comply with the resolution not to release government allocations to these states until the constitutionally elected local councils were restored.
In a statement signed by its state chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, and made available to the Nigerian Tribune on Wednesday, in Benin City, the Edo State PDP demanded the immediate recall of all elected chairmen and councillors, as well as the immediate release of the oil wind fall to the respective councils under the leadership of elected chairmen and councillors.
Also, the vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Senator Yisa Braimoh, has commended the resolution by the House of Representatives.
Braimoh, who represents Edo North, said the resolution, which affected states where democratically elected councils were dissolved by the state governors ahead of their terminal date, was “a bold step taken to reverse the arbitrariness and illegalities perpetrated by the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ekiti and Edo States and Labour Party in Ondo State.”
According to him, “These flagrant illegalities by the opposition ACN and Labour Party were not being condemned by the civil society,” even as he condemned the endorsement of the illegal acts by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana and publicity scribe of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
He said: “I expected Falana, who is the president of the West Africa Bar Association, to have taken a more dispassionate position on the issue rather than this condemnable endorsement of these illegalities.”
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