The Kwara State House of Assembly has locked out a lawmaker elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Hon Abdulraheem Agboola.
Agboola claimed that he was locked out of the Assembly on the order of the Speaker, Rt Hon Yakubu Salihu.
Members of the PDP in the state had stormed the Assembly to protest alleged refusal of leadership of the House to admit Agboola, who was declared winner of the Ilorin South State Constituency.
Agboola recently won his case at the Appeal Court, thereby unseating Mr. Hassan Elewu, the APC lawmaker earlier declared winner by the INEC.
Agboola thus became the only member elected on the platform of PDP in the 24-member Assembly.
INEC had since presented him certificate of return.
In a counter reaction, chairman, House Committee on Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Awolola Ayokunle, said the House was served “a court summon joining the Speaker and the Clerk to the House in a motion on notice with No. FHC/IL/CS/157/2019, filed at the Federal High Court, Ilorin Judicial Division, by Mr. Hassan Elewu, seeking to restrain the House from swearing in the PDP candidate pending determination of the case.
