Former members of Kwara State House of Assembly have asked the Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Yakubu Salihu – Danladi to swear-in Rahim Jimoh Agboola as ordered by the Court of Appeal.
The Appellate Court had on two occasions declared Agboola, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for Ilorin-South state constituency into the State House of Assembly in the 2019 general elections as the winner of the election.
The former parliamentarians frowned at the refusal of the house to admit and inaugurate Agboola as the representative of the people of Ilorin South State Constituency.
In a statement signed by the forum’s chairman and secretary, Hon. Abraham Ashaolu and Hon. Isiaka Mogaji respectively, the ex-lawmakers said the state house of assembly is a “public institution in which its integrity and sacredness had been preserved by us, as predecessors to the current 9th Assembly.”
They stressed that, instead of the 9th Assembly to dissipate energies on how to generate high impact legislations for the good governance of the state, it rather chooses acts of impunity and lawlessness.
“Our concern as key stakeholders is to ensure peace and harmony in the state, as we view the actions of the 9th Assembly to be antithetical to the peace of the state. We need to caution the House to desist from any act capable of discrediting the sanctity of the House, as an institution.
“This act of impunity and lawlessness as being exhibited by the current speaker is not known to the House we all served diligently and left behind an enduring institution worthy of pride, hence the need to caution the speaker to thread the path of honour and dignity,” the former lawmakers added.
