Members of the G-15 of the Kogi State House of Assembly, on Sunday, denied calling on the National Assembly to stop action on its planned takeover of the assembly.
The group, which is loyal to the embattled Speaker, Momoh Jimoh Lawal, said it would never abandon the struggle to ensure that justice prevail in the assembly.
Deputy majority leader of the assembly, Sunday Shigaba, who spoke on behalf of the group, said its members would continue to uphold the rule of law, notwithstanding sponsored publications targeted at soiling their integrity.
The group expressed shock at the publication said to have caught them unawares, saying Ademuyiwa Adeniyi, the purported counsel for the G-15, who was credited for the report, was unknown to them.
Shugaba said: “We woke up to realise that a publication was made (online) purported to be attributed to G-15 and it took us by great shock that somebody who we never authorised, said that on our behalf. That we, the G-15, have written to the National Assembly to halt the takeover of the Kogi legislative chambers.
“We were taken aback, as we did not authorise anybody to do such on our behalf. I am surprised to see somebody trying to upturn our position upside down. We are the ones who took our complain to the National Assembly, prompting their reaction and the whole world is aware of this and we remain resolute.
“There is no way an insignificant minority can take over, because politics is a game of numbers.The publication is unfounded and targeted at misinforming on our position and to soil our integrity.”
It will be recalled that the Kogi State House of Assembly had been enmeshed in crisis, following the purported impeachment of Lawal and other principal officers of the House by five out of the then 20-member assembly.
The development made the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to constitute a 10-man investigation panel, to look into the crisis, at the end of which its affairs were taken over.
Credit: Tribune
