SPEAKER of Osun State House of Assembly, Adejare Bello, has officially declared the seat of Osogbo State Constituency vacant following the Monday judgment of the Appeal Court that ordered the nullification of the election.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan had in a judgment read by Justice Dauda Bagge, ordered a rerun in Osogbo State Constituency within 60 days.

The court also ordered Akintunde Adegboye of the AC representing the constituency to vacate the seat immediately.

The Progressive Peoples Party (PPA) had challenged the validity of the election on the ground that it was excluded from the polls by INEC.

In his comments, Bello charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to, in no distant time, fix a date for a rerun that will afford the people of Osogbo State Constituency representation in the state parliament.

The Speaker said with the current arrangement, the state parliament now has its members reduced to 25 from 26, until there is an election to produce a representative of Osogbo in the Assembly.

With the latest development, the Action Congress (AC) which had 11 members at the beginning of the Assembly now has 9 members in the Osun Parliament, following the removal of the representative from Egbedore by a court, and his failure to win a re-election.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which started with 15 representatives in the Assembly, now has 16 members following the victory of the PDP at the Egbedore Constituency re-run polls.