The Peoples Democratic Party caucus of the Ekiti State House
of Assembly on Wednesday passed into law the sum of N80.94 billion
as budgetary provision for the 2015 fiscal year.
The Speaker of the House, Hon. Dele Olugbemi, who briefed
journalists after the short sitting, said Governor Ayodele Fayose
presented the sum of N80.77 billion to the House, but was increased to
the present status to be able to attend to some renovation to be carried
out in the Assembly.
The factional Speaker maintained that the lawmakers ensured that
all the three arms of government, Executive, Judiciary and the
Legislature, were well represented for financial balancing in the system
in the budget proposal.
Meanwhile, the embattled Speaker, Dr Adewale Omirin, and the 18 other
lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress, described the passage of
the appropriation bill into law as illegal and an exercise in futility.
The lawmakers explained that the seven PDP lawmakers were
lawfully suspended at a sitting two weeks ago in Ado-Ekiti where
resolutions on the autonomy for the local governments and House of
Assembly, among others, were passed and sent to the National Assembly as
Ekiti State contributions to the constitution amendment process.
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