BREAKING: Edo female Speaker steps down

– Mrs Elizabeth Ativie, the Speaker of Edo state House of Assembly, has ventured down following two months 

– She ventured down after a movement was moved by the Majority Leader, Folly Ogedengbe 

– She was supplanted by the Deputy Speaker, Dr. Justin Okonoboh

Mrs Elizabeth Ativie Mrs Elizabeth Ativie, the Speaker of Edo state House of Assembly, has ventured down from as Speaker after scarcely two months in office.

Mrs Ativie who was confirmed on May ‎3 after her ancestor Victor Edoror was arraigned, was supplanted by the Deputy Speaker, Dr. Justin Okonoboh.

She ventured down after so short a period after a movement was moved by the Majority Leader, Folly Ogedengbe, under matters of dire open significance, for an adjustment in the initiative of the House. As indicated by Punch, ‎Ogedengbe clarified that the change was important to guarantee decency in the political framework, so that every one of the three senatorial areas would be sufficiently spoken to.


Oshiomhole did this! Since, Adams Oshiomhole the state representative hails from Edo North senatorial locale while his agent, Dr. Pius Odubu, and Ativie hail from Edo South. Along these lines they required somebody from Edo Central senatorial locale and Okonoboh speaks to Igueben voting public in Edo Central senatorial region. Mrs Ativie would in this manner get to be representative.

Ogedengbe said: "I going to move that there is a change of administration in the House all together that this state pushes ahead, that there will be reasonableness and value in the framework, that the three senatorial locale will be legitimately obliged.

I am going to move with a substantial heart. "I move, along these lines, that the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mrs. Elizabeth Ativie, ought to venture down and expect office as Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly and that the Deputy Speaker, Dr. Justin Okonoboh, be advanced as the new Speaker.‎"

He said that 17 individuals from the House had bolstered the change of initiative, however 18 individuals went to bat for recognizable proof in backing of the movement, which was supported by the part speaking to Oredo West, Chris Okaeben. Ativie acknowledged the change likewise, and regardless of her short stay in office she recognized the officials for giving her the chance to serve and encouraged them to accord same to her successor.

She said: "Despite the fact that this is a gigantic a troublesome penance to make, I trust that it ought to be accomplished for the general population of Edo state. No penance will be too enormous to pay in meeting the longing goals of or individuals, who chose us to this House‎. Today, I cover my pride and my desire for the general great of the general population and the state, through which I developed as an official."

Okonoboh on his part said that his rise as Speaker was a consequence of wide counsels inside the All Progressives Congress (APC). He noticed that the new improvement was a House matter that was without any impedance from the senator.

He additionally recognized Ativie for her eagerness to venture down in a way phenomenal in the whole nation, vowing that every one of her arrangements would remain‎ legitimate. Prior, it was accounted for that the genuine explanation behind Mrs Ativie's venturing down was a political move by the APC. The political move was gone for boosting the All Progressives Congress (APC's) odds of triumph in the September 10 governorship survey.

As indicated by a report on This Day, the APC in Edo state have chosen to play their cards well in front of the forthcoming survey and at such, moved to adjust the tripod course of action in the state.