Why I was impeached – Former Edo speaker

The former speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Justin Okonoboh, has said that conflict of interests led to his impeachment.

Okonoboh, representing Igueben constituency at the assembly, was impeached by 16 out of the 24 members of the legislative chamber over alleged incompetence and abuse of office, while Kabiru Adjoto was elected as new speaker.

The former speaker, who

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spoke to journalists in Benin at the weekend, said he did not feel betrayed over the impeachment.

According to him, he has since forgotten the issue and forged ahead with the business of law making that will impact positively on the state and his constituency.

He said, “politics is about interest. I don’t see any betrayal at all. I don’t hold anything against anybody. It is for their interest. I have since resumed.”

Speaking on the call by traditional rulers from Edo North

Our story published page 34 of last Friday’s edition under the headline ‘Kano clash: Kwankwasiyya members take case to PSC again” refers. In the said story, the former Kano State commissioner for State Affairs, Aminu Abdulsalam, during a visit and Central Senatorial District for a return of the speakership position to Edo Central, Okonoboh noted that it was their own way, as custodians of the people’s custom and values, of contributing to the development of the constituency.

It would be recalled that traditional rulers led by Otaro of Auchi Ikelebe III, Alhaji Aliru Momoh, had after its meeting, called on the newly elected speaker, Kabiru Adjoto to step down for the position to go back to Edo Central. to the Police Service Commission spoke on behalf of the Kwankwasiyya group. He was quoted to have said the police commissioner had “earned for himself the nickname of chairman of the Kwankwasiyya faction”. But it was inadvertently reported as “chairman of Kwankwasiyya faction” instead of “Gandujiyya faction”. The error is regretted.