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The Clerk of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Dr. Emma Udaya has said there is no plot to inaugurate the new Assembly, clandestinely as reported in some online news platforms.
Dr. Udaja stated this on Thursday, on the sideline of the a three-day workshop for the 24 Members-elect taking place at the Nike Lake Hotels and Resorts.
He disclosed that the inauguration of the House is a constitutional matter with instruments that are used in the first sitting of every House in line with established standing rules.
He described reports of his purported meeting with the governor, Peter Mbah as mischievous.
“Everything that will be done will be done transparently and in the chamber of the House, and so I don’t know where that rumour originated. I never held any meeting with his Excellency; he never muted anything like that. So I was surprised and shocked to hear and see such publications going everywhere.”
In the case of how the leadership of the house will emerge, Udaya said, “All things that will be done in the inauguration are contained in the set of rules called standing order, and that set of rules stipulated how to conduct the first sitting; how to elect presiding officers of the House and that standing order is an offshoot of the constitution which in section 101 provides that every state House of Assembly reserves the right to develop some set of rules to guide the affairs of the House.”
The 24 House of Assembly members-elect are comprised of 14 members elected from the Labour Party (LP) and 10 members elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)