The 10th Ogun State House of Assembly is to be inaugurated on June 13 for yet another legislative period of four years.

After the March 18 House of Assembly election, some of the 26 lawmakers who sought reelection lost their bids to return to the House as they were defeated by the opposition party.

The election storm ‘blew away’ the Deputy Speaker, Akeem Balogun, who lost to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun Waterside. It also overwhelmed the Chief Whip, Atinuke Bello, who also lost to the PDP in Odogbolu.

The Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo narrowly escaped defeat as he defeated the PDP candidate with less than 1,000 votes, even though he lost a supplementary election held to conclude the process.

Press observes that the tenth Ogun Assembly has 17 lawmakers elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC,, while the PDP has nine. This keeps the APC in control of the House by having the majority.

With their inauguration on Tuesday, the lawmakers are expected to elect a Speaker, a Deputy Speaker and other presiding officers. Based on the strength of the APC lawmakers in the House, the election will practically be an APC affair, except for the position of the Minority Leader.

At the moment, DAILY POST gathered that the APC is putting pen to paper as it is about to conclude plans on who should be the presiding officers. The party, it was learnt, wants to have a consensus so as to avoid having people who would not do the biddings of the executive.

One of the party’s major concerns is the position of the Speaker, which was held throughout the ninth assembly by Hon. Olakunle Oluomo.

While some want Oluomo to retain his position as the Speaker of the Ogun Assembly, other leaders of the APC are suggesting a replacement for Oluomo, who was the Deputy Speaker from 2011 to 2019.

The reason some are not in support of Oluomo’s return as the Speaker was as a result of the N2.5 billion fraud case hanging around his neck.