Electoral amendment act: Omo-Agege sues Senate to end his proposed arraignment

- Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta central, has stalled his court hearing by sueing the Senate over his views on the Electoral amendment act

- Omo-Agege's was supposed to be arraigned before the Senate on Tuesday, March 27

- He was one of the nine senators who stormed out of the Senate chamber to voice their objection to the House's position on the issue

Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta central, has sued the Senate to put an end to his coming before the committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions which arose because of his views on the amendment of the Electoral Act, The Nation reports.

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Omo-Agege was supposed to appear before Senator Samuel Anyanwu on Tuesday, March 27. In a letter addressed to Bukola Saraki, the Senate president, in which the Ethic Committee was copied, it was stated that the case for which Omo-Agege was to be arraigned was already in court.

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The letter dated Monday, March 26, was signed by Ifeoluwa Ojediran for summit law chambers. Omo-Agege was one of the nine senators who stormed out of the Senate chamber to voice their objection to the adoption of the conference committee report on the amendment of the Electoral Act, 2018. He was later to apologise to the Senate for his views on the subject.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Omo-Agege, had denied making moves for the break-up of Nigeria as a country.

Legit.ng gathered that he said the dissolution of the country is not part of the restructuring contemplated by some section of the country.

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Source: Legit.ng