House of Representatives
House of Representatives on Tuesday debunked a back-door amendment of the Standing Orders of the House, which contains rules guiding the conduct of legislative business in the chamber.
An online medium had claimed that the rules of the House had been secretly amended ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly in June, to restrict members ‘open ballot’ in the speakership and deputy speakership elections.
The chairman of the House Committee on Basic Education and Services, Prof Julius Ihonvbere, who chaired the panel that reviewed the rules book in 2019, however, dismissed the report on Tuesday.
Ihonvbere, in a statement released by the Secretariat of the ‘Joint Task – 10th Assembly’, a coalition of members-elect of the All Progressives Congress and opposition parties, recalled how the House, on July 25, 2019, unanimously considered and adopted the report by his panel on a series of amendments to the Standing Orders of the House.
The lawmaker also denied interference by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, in the process.
Ihonvbere, a member of the APC from Edo State, was Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the Standing Orders of the House of Reps; ex-Chairman, Ad-Hoc Committee on the Legislative Agenda of the House of Reps; and ex-Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on the Revision of the Legislative Agenda of the House of Reps.
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