Ondo State House of Assembly was allegedly under siege for hours yesterday as men suspected to be political thugs were seen around the complex, thereby causing anxiety.
These stern looking men resumed at the state Assembly complex at about7 30am, and there were allegations that these men are hired thugs, contracted to prevent the nine suspended lawmakers that the court quashed their suspension, from resuming.
Nine lawmakers were suspended by the assembly for refusing to sign the impeachment notice served on the deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi.
Dissatisfied with their suspension, the lawmakers went to court to challenge it.
Consequently, an Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure ordered their reinstatement.
The trial Judge, Justice Ademola Bola, had described their suspension as illegal, null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
The Judge ordered that the lawmakers must be reinstated into their positions with immediate effect, and a sum of N5million should be paid to each of the lawmakers as damages.
Basking in the euphoria of their reinstatement, the lawmakers planned to join their colleagues at the plenary but they met a brick-wall and retreated.
Numbering about 100, the thugs manned the main gate of the Assembly complex with their vehicles parked along the road leading to the complex .
It was the timely intervention of police operatives, that prevented the thugs from entering the complex as they mounted barricades at the entrance of the complex.
