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There was no let up in the crisis bedeviling the Oyo State House of Assembly on Tuesday, as its two factions of lawmakers appeared before the House of Representatives Adhoc Committee, laying claim to the leadership of the House while also pointing to a near impossibility of ever sitting together again as one united legislative house.
At an open session held at the Function Room of the Premier Hotel, the lawmakers, led by their separate leaders, painted different pictures of the causes of the crisis and a possible way out of it.
Why the G14, who were opposed to the impeachment of the state governor, Senator Rasidi Ladoja, alleged that external forces were behind the crisis in the House in their desperate bid to get at the governor, the G18 lawmakers, loyal to the self-acclaimed godfather of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu put the blame of the crisis at the doorsteps of the govenor, accusing him of undue interference in the affairs of the House.
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