Nigeria: Ondo Assembly Crisis Continues Despite Akeredolu's Intervention

Despite the efforts of the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, to mediate in the crisis rocking the state house of assembly, a faction of the house has maintained that the impeachment of the speaker and other principal officers is "sacrosanct."

The 13-member faction led by Malachi Coker, said the meetings with the governor and the efforts to resolve the crisis would not change the position already taken by the group in removing the speaker, Jumoke Akindele, and her principal officers.

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