CONTRARY to reports that he has stepped down as Speaker of Bayelsa State House of Assembly following an alleged court judgment to that effect, Mr Konbowei Benson, has said that he remains the Speaker.
He described as “untrue and a lie of the highest order,” a claim that an Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had on December 9, 2015, nullified his election into the state assembly.
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Addressing newsmen, yesterday, Benson insisted that he was not only still the Speaker of Bayelsa Assembly, but also the member representing Southern Ijaw Constituency 4.
Benson, who noted that the said judgment was delivered in his favour, added that he had sufficient proof to that effect.
He stressed that contrary to interpretations from his political opponent, there was no enrolment order from the court asking him to vacate his seat.
He also said that there was no order that he should meet the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for a different date for election as being alleged by his political opponents.
He said, “INEC has not informed me of any notice of enrolment or whatever that they have also received. There is nothing.”
