The House of Representatives at the Committee of the Whole on Wednesday 17th July 2019 considered and adopted the Report of the Ad-hoc Committee on Need for Intervention in the Edo State House of Assembly Crisis.

It will be recalled that on the 9th of July 2019, the House set up an Ad-hoc Committee to investigate the Edo State Crisis after a motion of urgent National Importance moved by a Federal lawmaker from the State faulted the election procedure that saw 9 out of 24 Members-Elect secretly elect a Speaker in the Edo State House of Assembly.

Presenting the report Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas (APC: Adamawa), Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee made the following recommendations;

(i) That the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, should in the interest of peaceful co-existence of the State, issue a fresh Proclamation within one (1) week in line with Section 105(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) stating the date, time and venue of inauguration and publish it in any National Daily and Television Station;

(ii) That all actions taken by the 9th Assembly Members should be declared null and void pending proper inauguration;

(iii) That all Members of the Edo State House of Assembly, both those who have been inaugurated and those who have not been inaugurated should set aside their differences in the interest of peace and stability of the House with a view of moving the State forward;

(iiii) That the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Director General (DG), Department of State Service should shut down the Edo State House of Assembly and provide adequate security to allay further fears of intimidation and threat as alleged by some Members-elect;

(v) That where recommendations (i) (ii) and (iii) above fail, the National Assembly should invoke the provisions of Section 11(4) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to take over the State House of Assembly until the situation normalises.

The House adopted and approved the recommendations therein.