Southwest Speakers Adopt Reports On How To Ensure Political Integration, Move Against Indiscriminate Impeachment

Speakers of the Houses of Assembly in the six Southwest states under the auspice of Southwest Conference of Speakers on Thursday adopted harmonised reports to have a common standing order and house rules.

The speakers, at a meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, tagged: “Validation and adoption of harmonised standing orders for Southwest Houses of Assembly”, said the adoption of the rules would deepen democracy and checkmate what they called executive recklessness., according to a report by The Nation Newspaper.

The essence of the reports include:

• Move against indiscriminate impeachment of speakers and house leaders.
• It would also help economic and political integration in the region.
• Ensure progress of the region
• Standing orders and house rules conformity across region
• It will also checkmate the excess of the executive in influencing the leadership of the Houses of Assembly without conforming with the provisions of the law.

Chairman, Speakers Conference in Nigeria and the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues, said the decision was beyond politics, but for the progress of the region.