Elder statesman and former Minister of Information and Culture, Chief Edwin Clark has accused the National Assembly of seeking to create anarchy in Edo State following its recent intervention in the activities of the state House of Assembly.

The two chambers of the National Assembly recently passed resolutions directing Governor Godwin Obaseki to issue a fresh order for the inauguration of the State Assembly, following the complaints by a faction of the lawmakers that they were not part of the initial inauguration. Clark berated the Senate for concurring with the House of Representatives on the issue and argued that the National Assembly had no powers to compel Governor Godwin Obaseki to re-issue the proclamation.

He said that while the initial intervention by the House of Representatives was “ugly and hasty,” the latest concurrence by the Senate appears to be a conspiracy in furtherance of a “perverse onslaught” in the Edo State governance structure.

“The Senate seems not aware of, or is too possessed of a mindset that blinds it against the many Provisions in the Constitution that supersede the mere fact that the two components of the National Assembly working in tandem, on the Edo State Project.”

•Text (excluding headline): New Telegraph.