36-year old Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin on Saturday emerged the new Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria
Hon Adebo Ogundoyin, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, emerged at a national meeting of the Conference in Abuja following the withdrawal of the Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Taiwo Oluomo from the race.
The appointment of Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin was thereafter confirmed through a unanimous voice vote by the speakers in attendance at the Conference.
This was consequent upon the expiration of the two year tenure of the leadership of the Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Hon Abubakar Suleiman.
The Constitution of the Conference stipulates a two year term of office for its elected leadership and this is rotated between the Northern and the Southern part of the country.
This time it is the turn of the Southern region to produce the chairman of the Conference.
With this the Oyo state speaker has made history by becoming the youngest chairman of the conference of speakers of states legislators since it’s establishment since 1999.
This is also the first time a member of the opposition will emerged as the chairman of the conference.
In his acceptance speech, the chairman of the conference Rt Hon Debo Ogundoyin expressed his willingness to serve the conference .
” I therefore accept the honour with a great sense of gratitude, humility, responsibilities and an overwhelming determination to selflessly serve this assemblage of highly revered Rt Hon Speakers of Nigeria state legislatures.
He appreciated the outgoing Executive Council of the conference for projecting and actualising the objectives of the conference in the last two days.
Oyo Speaker assured that the new Executive Council would not only work assiduously to achieve the goals of the Conference but would also set more ambitious and realistic goals.
