Ekiti lawmakers take protest to Abuja
The Ekiti State House of Assembly will be going to Abuja to protest the reduction of the state’s constituencies.
The Independent
National Electoral Commision plans to reduce the number of Ekiti
constituencies from 26 to 24, a development which the state Assembly
committee chairman on information, Morakinyo Adebayo called “an act of
injustice’’ to the state.
Mr. Adebayo
disclosed that the 26 members of the House would stage a peaceful
demonstration to the National Assembly and INEC office to register
their displeasure.
He said that the
responsibility of the state’s constituency rests with the state
Assembly, noting that, “INEC does not have any business in either
reducing or increasing constituencies. If INEC is increasing the
constituency of other states, why then is it reducing our own?.
The Assembly bears the cost of maintaining the constituencies and not INEC.
INEC has nothing to gain in the reduction and we will not rest until the decision is reversed,” he said.
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