Reps Minority Caucus stage walks out of plenary, alleges due process breach in passage of Tinubu's state police Bill

…..as 311 Reps vote to pass Bill

By Gift Chapi Odekina, Abuja

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives on Thursday staged a walkout from the chamber in protest over the passage of the constitutional amendment bill seeking to establish state police, accusing the House leadership of violating constitutional provisions and the chamber’s Standing Orders.

Addressing journalists shortly after leaving the chamber, the Minority Leader, Fredrick Agbedi, alongside other caucus leaders, insisted that their action was not borne out of opposition to state police but against what they described as the abuse of parliamentary procedures.

Speaking on behalf of the caucus, Agbedi said the Speaker, while presiding as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole, ignored clear constitutional requirements governing the alteration of the Constitution.