Ekiti State House of Assembly has written to the State Chief Judge. Mr. Justice Ayodeji Daramola, asking him to set up a panel to investigate allegations raised in the impeachment notice to Governor Ayodele Fayose.
At a special sitting held at Mary Hills Boys High School, Ado-Ekiti, on Thursday, the 19 APC lawmakers said they relied on Section 101 of the 1999 Constitution as amended which empowers the Assembly to regulate their sittings, including sitting in a public building within the state capital if conditions exist in the hallowed chamber that endanger members’ lives.
Majority Leader, Churchill Adedipe, Irepodun/Ifelodun Constituency One, explained that the sitting ought to have taken place in the hallowed chamber on April 7, 2015 but members were waylaid by thugs who mounted roadblock and threatening their lives with dangerous weapons, thereby making them to abandon going to the Assembly.
Relying on Section 188 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), Adedipe moved the motion empowering the Chief Judge to set up the panel.
His motion was seconded by the Deputy Speaker, Adetunji Orisalade, representing Ido/Osi Constituency Two.
After debates, the lawmakers in a unanimous vote supported the motion directing the chief judge to set up the panel.
The House adjourned to the next legislative day.
Attempts by the lawmakers to convene a meeting in the State House of Assembly complex had reportedly met a brickwall as pro-Fayose forces blocked the entrance.In the melee on earlier in the week, at least one person was killed.
Even more, Fayose has been insisting that no impeachment notice has been served on him.After report of today’s action filtered out,Lere Olayinka, who is Fayose’s online media aide urged the people to kindly disregard the info being circulated the APC that their lawmakers are sitting somewhere in Ado Ekiti.
He said further “#APC lawmakers did not sit anywhere in Ekiti today#
“At Mary Hills Boys High School, Ado-Ekiti, where Omirin and his APC lawmakers claimed that they sat, WAEC Exam took place today.
“Students wrote WAEC exams in the School Hall.
“Let Omirin and his APC desperadoes tell us another lie.
“Only FIVE APC lawmakers are in Ekiti as I write and they are in the house of Otunba Niyi Adebayo at Iyin Ekiti.
“I can also confirm that there are rifts among the APC lawmakers. Dem don dey fight..”Olayinka claimed.
