Barring last minute changes, the representative
of Ejigbo state constituency in the Osun House of Assembly, Mr Nojeem
Salam, is set to emerge as the new Speaker of the on Thursday (today).
The fourth Osun parliament wound up activities on Tuesday with the former Speaker, Chief Adejare Bello, and his colleagues bowing out in a valedictory session witnessed by Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
Investigation by our correspondent showed that Salam was picked by members of the new parliament in a meeting, on Tuesday evening.
The new parliament would be inaugurated on Thursday by Aregbesola.
With the governor coming from Ilesa, which is in Osun-East district and his deputy coming from Osogbo, which is located in Osun-Central, the post of the Speaker became open to Osun-West parliamentarians.
Only Salam and his Egbedore counterpart, Mr Abiodun Awolola, are the only two second-term legislators with lawmakers from Iwo and Ola-Oluwa districts being first timers in the House.
Egbedore-Ejigbo-Iwo-Olaoluwa state constituency falls into Osun-West district, the zone where the Speakership had been zoned to.
Salam and Awolola both had their elections voided by an election petition tribunal sitting in Osogbo.
Peoples Democratic Party members in the House, Mr George Alabi (Ejigbo), and Mr Okun Ibiremi (Egbedore) dragged Salam and Awolola to the tribunal, which subsequently voided the elections of the Action Congress of Nigeria lawmakers.
By Agency reporter Courtesy Of: Punch
The fourth Osun parliament wound up activities on Tuesday with the former Speaker, Chief Adejare Bello, and his colleagues bowing out in a valedictory session witnessed by Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
Investigation by our correspondent showed that Salam was picked by members of the new parliament in a meeting, on Tuesday evening.
The new parliament would be inaugurated on Thursday by Aregbesola.
With the governor coming from Ilesa, which is in Osun-East district and his deputy coming from Osogbo, which is located in Osun-Central, the post of the Speaker became open to Osun-West parliamentarians.
Only Salam and his Egbedore counterpart, Mr Abiodun Awolola, are the only two second-term legislators with lawmakers from Iwo and Ola-Oluwa districts being first timers in the House.
Egbedore-Ejigbo-Iwo-Olaoluwa state constituency falls into Osun-West district, the zone where the Speakership had been zoned to.
Salam and Awolola both had their elections voided by an election petition tribunal sitting in Osogbo.
Peoples Democratic Party members in the House, Mr George Alabi (Ejigbo), and Mr Okun Ibiremi (Egbedore) dragged Salam and Awolola to the tribunal, which subsequently voided the elections of the Action Congress of Nigeria lawmakers.
By Agency reporter Courtesy Of: Punch
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