The Ondo State House of Assembly is the legislative branch of the
Ondo State Government inaugurated on February 3, 1979.
The assembly is
unicameral
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Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...
with 26 representatives elected from each constituencies of the 18 local government area of the state.
In 2011, the assembly consists of two political parties,
LP and the
PDP but the assembly was dominated by the Labour party with a total number of 25 representative and the PDP with only one representative.
In October 2015, all members of the assembly defected to the PDP following the defection of
Olusegun Mimiko
Olusegun Rahman Mimiko ( yo, Olúṣẹ́gun Mímikò ; born 3 October 1954), is a Nigerian doctor and politician, he was the senatorial candidate of the Zenith Labour Party for Ondo Central District in the 2019 Senate elections. He served as ...
, the governor of the state who was re-elected on May 29, 2011 following the April 11, 2011 election.
Presently, the Assembly comprises 23 members of the PDP and 2 members of the APC with a vacant seat.
Presiding officer
The incumbent
Speaker
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Society and politics
* Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
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is
Bamidele Oleyelogun who succeeded the first female speaker of the Assembly,
Jumoke Akindele .
Current House Of Assembly Member
References
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1976 establishments in Nigeria
State lower houses in Nigeria