Nigerian Concord Newspaper
It’s a new problem for the embattled deputy speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mrs Lami Danladi Ogenyi as a group of elderly women in Ado Local Government area of the State has raised alarm that she should not ruin the marriage of a leader of the All Progressive Congress in Igumale area of the local government, Mrs Elizabeth Agbese over baseless accusation of sexual affairs with the Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Saater Tiseer.
The APC women in Ado who came out in a group accused the deputy speaker who is presently being accused of financial recklessness, act that tends to threaten the safety of Ado people and disturbance of public peace of using her accomplices to cook lies that Mrs Elizabeth Agbese was having a secret affairs with the Majority Leader.
Recall that Nkechi Okafor, one of the accomplices of Mrs Danladi is the coordinator of a PDP senator from Benue South, Mr. Patrick Abba Moro. She is being used by the deputy speaker to attack the government of the State led by Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia.
According to the Ado women who took their agitation to the Social Media last night, the deputy speaker cooked the lie of infidelity against Elizabeth Agbese and the Majority Leader because she didn’t get the backing of Mr. Saater Tiseer during the time she was giving a fake account of the physical attacks which her driver and security details made on the team of the chairman of her local government, Mr. Oche Sunday Oche.
Lami Danladi had lied to the leadership of the House of Assembly including the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Dajoh Aondoana on the day she instructed thugs to attack a vehicle driving Mrs Elizabeth Agbese and other supporters of Engineer Oche Sunday Oche that it was the council chairman that ordered the attack in an attempt to assassinate her.
But while giving his own account during a Plenary Session as an eye witness who was also going through the road where the incident occured on the fateful day, the Majority Leader confirmed that she saw the deputy speaker’s Prado Jeep when her driver angrily overtook his own car and blocked the vehicle where Mrs Elizabeth Agbese and other supporters of the chairman were. The deputy speaker was also in the speeding jeep, according to Hon. Saater Tiseer.
According to the Majority Leader in his own testimony, it was the deputy speaker’s driver and some security personnel riding in her convoy that came down and started attacking the chairman’s supporters including Mrs Elizabeth Agbese.
The Majority Leader told the House that he witnessed how Lami Danladi ordered her men to attack the Chairman’s supporters on the spot. He pressed further that he even cautioned the deputy speaker against the action.
The testimony of the Majority Leader prompted the Speaker who in his wisdom demanded to watch the video which was recorded before and during the attack. The contents of the video exposed that it was indeed the deputy speaker that orchestrated the attacks on the chairman and his people.
The Plenary Session didn’t end without a drama as the deputy speaker ran to the Majority Leader, held his clothes and insulted him in the presence of other lawmakers that he didn’t let her have her way. Lami, according to sources had planned to call for the suspension of Mr. Oche Sunday Oche with the false allegation that he and his supporters attacked her with a plot to assassinate her.
This probably angered the deputy speaker who in company of her husband and one old woman went to Mrs Elizabeth Agbese husband’s house where they lied to the husband that his wife was having a secret affairs with the Majority Leader.
In her allegation, Mrs Danladi claimed that the Majority Leader had camped the woman in a hotel in Makurdi for three days. This angered the husband who drove Mrs Elizabeth Agbese out of his house. “He immediately sued for divorce” one of the aggrieved women in Ado said.
However, the husband became calm when news started flying that the deputy speaker may be telling him lies about a secret affairs between his wife and Mr. Saater Tiseer, and as a result of that, he inquired further from Mrs Danladi about the name of the hotel and the dates she claimed his wife was lodged there by the Majority leader.
Mr. Agbese and some of his family members visited the hotel and discovered that none of the Majority Leader and Mrs Elizabeth Agbese has ever visited the hotel before. He also discovered that his wife was with his own elder sister in her Abuja residence doing her tradings on the dates which the deputy speaker claimed she was lodged in a hotel in Makurdi by the Majority Leader. “The husband is actually begging that the woman should return back home after finding out that Mrs Danladi only lied against her and the Majority Leader to score a cheap point” another woman who was part of the aggrieved women stated.
Meanwhile, this newspaper gathered that Mrs Elizabeth Agbese is considering to institute a court case against the embattled deputy speaker for defamation and act that threatened her marriage.
Reacting to the development, National Equity and Justice Movement led by Barrister Regina Okechukwu has called on the leadership of the State House of Assembly to immediately suspend the deputy speaker for bringing the revered House to disrepute with her acts of thuggery which is already disturbing public peace in her local government.