By innocent osuoha
The expected resumption of members of the Imo State House of Assembly, scheduled for yesterday at the temporary office of the lawmakers failed to hold. No clear reason was given for the failed sitting for plenary session.
After embarking on a week break and adjourning to resume on Thursday, the House of Assembly chamber remained under lock and key with no sign of members observing their sitting.
Trumpeta had exclusively revealed about a looming trouble following plots by some members to effect change in leadership of the House where the Speaker and Deputy would be swept off for new persons. The newspaper followed up the story yesterday with another revelation that the resumption could be aborted following the uneasy calm and palpable tension in the House.
The unsure position of things forced the Speaker and his Deputy to keep away from the premises of the House and only preferred to summon their aggrieved colleagues to a meeting for fence-mending purposes.
It was learnt that majority of the members met at the Speaker’s residence to deliberate on the matter and possible means of seeking peaceful resolution. Trumpeta was informed that some of the members expressed deep-rooted grievances that they have been kept in the lurch in terms of getting dividends of being in the House whereas only the House Leadership and few cohorts gained. Another issue is the negative publicity the House is attracting which has portrayed the entire members in bad light before the public and constituents.
To avert the impending doom, it was gathered that Uwajumogu and his Deputy Ozoemena were tasked to make available meaningful “PR” to quench the desire for leadership change. Though no agreement was reached on the issue, the members promised to re-convene with the Speaker while the resumption was put off and tentatively fixed for next week.
Our reporter who was at the Assembly Complex to witness the plenary session along other staffers of the House were disappointed as the complex was deserted with members shunning their offices and the chamber. Only Hon Mike Ndubuaku of Orlu constituency was sighted in his off minor assignments.
Efforts to reach the Speaker and members to react on the development proved abortive.
