From: Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan

The Oyo State House of Assembly has cleared the air over the alleged media report that it is seeking to rival the state government in the power structure.

The Assembly said that the media report that the bill, Oyo State House of Assembly Self Accounting, it passed into law, on Tuesday, was being misinterpreted as seeking to be autonomous of the government structure.

Addressing journalists, in Ibadan, Chairman, House Committee on information, Hon. Joshua Oyebamiji, said the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Michael Adeyemo, frowned at the media report to the effect that it is seeking to rival the Executive arm in power structure.

Oyebamiji maintained that the Assembly was acting on instructions of the Speaker to address the journalists to make clarification on the bill passed into law.

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According to him, the bill was to make provision for the House to be self-accounting and not self-autonomy as being reported.

Hear him: “The bill’s purpose is not to cause rivalry with other arms of the state government. This is a practice in the National Assembly while other states like Lagos State have followed suit by making use of self- accounting.

“The law is to benefit the future generations to facilitate transparency and accountability in whose Accountant-General and Auditor General of the state have roles to play.

“And from our above statements, we are saying the house is not on rivalry with neither executive arm or judiciary arm of the state government saying the three arms are in harmony”, he stated.

He therefore advised the journalists to always approach the house leadership for any clarification saying there’s a difference between their thinking and reality.