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    "id": 89981,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "It is Standing Order No.5. Indeed, those who are seeking to mislead me, please, take time to read the Standing Orders. It says this:- “Immediately following the election of a Speaker after a General Election, the Clerk shall administer the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance to the Speaker in the presence of the assembled House and the Speaker shall then administer the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance to all the other Members present.” The key words there are “immediately after the election of the Speaker”. Your current Speaker today was elected on 15th January, 2008. He was, in accordance with the law and, indeed, the Constitution, sworn in. What the new Constitution seeks to do is to have State Officers who are in place at the time that new Constitution takes effect, to swear allegiance to the Constitution. So, the Speaker is not expected to be sworn in into the Office of the Speaker because the Speaker has already been sworn in. But, as and of when the new Constitution takes effect, then the Speaker will be bound, so as to implement and apply that new Constitution, to swear allegiance to it. What governs us then will be the Provision under Article 13 of the Sixth Schedule. Those of you who have the proposed Constitution will find that on page 197. It provides as follows:- “On the effective date, the President and any State Officer or any other person who had, before the effective date, taken and subscribed an oath or affirmation of office under the former Constitution---” This Constitution does not become former until tomorrow. The Article continues to say:- “Or who is required to take and subscribe an oath or affirmation of office under this Constitution, shall take and subscribe the appropriate oath or affirmation under this Constitution.”"
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