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The Ogun State Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress, Mr. Sola Lawal, has said the party cannot prescribe any sanction yet for the deputy governor, Mr. Segun Adesegun, since he has not formally defected to the Social Democratic Party.

He said the deputy governor, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Thursday, had not expressly said he had defected to the SDP.

Lawal said, We are not aware of the moves the deputy governor is making, either to defect to another party or not. At the party level, there is no document to show he has left the All Progressives Congress. All he said in the newspaper report today was that he would be where his leader (Chief Olusegun Osoba) is.

Even Chief Osoba has not disclosed where hes going, going by that report. Since he neither responded to the text message sent to him on the issue nor picked his telephone when you called him, I cannot tell you the sanction yet, let us wait until he finally defects.

The deputy governor was also silent on whether he would resign or not given the alleged injustices he claimed the governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, had meted on him and his office.

While he did not pick the calls made to his telephone line by our correspondent, he responded to the text message sent to him, asking whether he would resign.

No comments, the text read.

If at the end of the day the deputy governor finally announces his defection to the SDP, it would be difficult for the State House of Assembly to impeach him.

The House, which is made of 26 members, has been divided equally into two factions -13 members loyal to the governor and the other 13 making up the opposition.

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South Australia's Liberal opposition is putting investment at risk by calling an inquiry into fracking, oil and gas producer Santos says.

The Liberals will move next week to establish a parliamentary select committee to examine the effects of fracking in the state's south east, saying it will ease concerns about the practice.

But the state Labor government and industry groups have rubbished the proposed inquiry, saying it would put billions of dollars of investment at risk.

Santos' vice-president of Eastern Australia, James Baulderstone, added to the criticism, saying the Liberals were ignoring the company's long track record of safe operations in SA.

"The South Australian gas industry has been built on strong bipartisan political support, which in turn has given investors confidence to invest in this state," he said in a statement on Friday.

"If this inquiry is captured by political opportunists, it could seriously erode that confidence."

While Santos has no direct operations in the south east, the company was concerned at the "wider implications" of the proposed inquiry, Mr Baulderstone said.

The SA Chamber of Mines and Energy said the business community should be alarmed that the Liberals were playing into the hands of "hardcore Green activists".

The Liberals rejected an earlier fracking inquiry proposed by the Greens, saying it was too broad.

Opposition resources spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan told AAP the Liberals' inquiry would clear up scaremongering by the environmental lobby.

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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he knew of the misconduct allegations being levelled by two of his MPs against two now-former Liberal Members of Parliament, but he did not go public with the complaints to respect their wishes.

Mulcair said his primary concern was to ensure that the two NDP MPs who were making the accusations got whatever help they needed, and that their wishes were respected.

"Those wishes included a very strong desire to keep this confidential. This was their request and we were not about to override that and make them victims a second time."

The NDP received no prior warning whatsoever from the Liberals that they would go public with the allegations, Mulcair told reporters Thursday that an event in Whitby, Ont.

On Wednesday, Liberals Massimo Pacetti of Montreal and Scott Andrews of Newfoundland were suspended from the Liberal caucus after allegations of what party leader Justin Trudeau called "serious personal misconduct."

Both Pacetti and Andrews deny any wrongdoing.

Trudeau asked the Commons speaker to investigate, saying the days when such incidents were dealt with quietly in Parliament's backrooms are long gone.

Trudeau said he had a duty to act when he was approached with the allegations.

I just know that for someone to come forward to a party leader that is not their own, there is an expectation that there will be consequences, Trudeau told reporters Thursday.

One of the NDP MPs approached Trudeau with allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Pacetti and Andrews on a five-hour bus trip back to Ottawa from Cpl. Nathan Cirillos funeral in Hamilton, Ont., last Tuesday.

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