Ekiti Crisis: No Speaker Was Impeached - Fayose Speaks Up

Governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose has debunked reports that the speaker of the state House of Assembly, Adewale Omirin, was impeached on Monday.

Report had earlier surfaced that 7 PDP members of the house of assembly who recently defected to the PDP from APC met at the state assembly complex without the speaker or the deputy to carry out the illegal impeachment of the Speaker of the house.

Ayodele Fayose

They were also said to have elected one Dele Olugbemi as the Speaker pro-tempore, an action described by some as a technical impeachment of the substantive Speaker, before approving nominations sent in by the governor. The approvals fueled reports Mr. Omirin had been technically removed from office.

Fayose in a statement said contrary to report, the lawmakers breached no laws, and did not impeach the house speaker, Premium Times reports.
According to the governor, nine members of the house sat and the House’s standing order allows a quorum of 9 members to sit and appoint a presiding officer.

The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to the news aired by the AIT that the Ekiti State Speaker has been impeached by 7 members.

“Well, I am not supposed to respond to the lies aired by the AIT purposely to misinformed members of the public because the legislature is another arm of government and whatever they do in their chamber is their business and the executive arm has nothing to do with that.

“If they remove their leaders and appoint new ones, that is their business. However, to educate the public, no speaker was removed.”The All Progressives Congress, APC had condemned the action of the members of the PDP.

Reacting to the APC, Fayose said they are only being hypocritical.
He said: “APC-controlled state of Edo, we all know what is happening there. For over a year now, the state governor has prevented the lawmakers from sitting.

“He said he was going to renovate the Assembly Complex and PDP lawmakers have been meeting in the dilapidated complex, while APC lawmakers are meeting at the Government House.
“Also another APC state of Rivers, the judiciary has been shut down for over a year too.”