Aregbesola Seeks Probe Of Coup Allegation

“Honourable” Aregbesola moved the motion while performing his first legislative function after being honoured with an Honourary Life Membership of the Osun State House of Assembly in Osogbo.

Aregbesola said the House must pass a resolution commending the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai, for his thorough professionalism and belief in the current democracy.

Honourable Aregbesola also called for a probe into the coup allegation with a view to bringing any erring officers to book.

He said the heart of any democracy is the parliament, the absence of which there is no representation by the people from which power actually flows.

According to him, the nation is so diverse as a people that anything short of true federalism as its system of government is an invitation to chaos.

The Governor also canvassed for a change in the mode of legislative representation based on only geographical space to more modern criteria like occupation and professional categories.

The Speaker of the House, Hon. Najeem Folasayo, Salam attributed the unanimous decision of every member of the House to Aregbesola’s unprecedented contributions to the development of the state.

Salam, who described Governor Aregbesola as a leader per excellence and an astute political leader, said the action was collectively taken as part of the legislative resolves to reward the Governor for his good works not only to the people of Osun but Nigeria as a whole.

The speaker who frowned at the insinuations making the round that the state House has been incapacitated and turned to a rubber stamp of the executive, said on no account does the House act outside the constitutional frameworks of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria since assumption of the current dispensation.

Najeem said at the inception of the current dispensation, the House has no reason to fail or derelict in its duties in making profitable and beneficial laws to advance democracy and the general well-being of the citizenry.

He said the House has succeeded in its oversight functions to ensure transparency and accountability on the executive arms of government, thus serving as the watchdog on the policies, activities and programmes of the executive since inception.

The Guest lecturer and Leader House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila in his lecture titled “suitability of presidential system in a multi-ethic democracy”, canvassed for restructuring of the Nigeria federal system so as to aid proper development.

Gbajabiamila argued that for a nation to progress the system of government must fit into structure of governance, saying if both are not in tandem, then such nation is running a system and structure that are misnomer.

According to him, the present 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria conceded too much responsibilities to the federal government at the expense of other component units.