A report reveals
that Ekiti lawmakers who fled the state since November 2014 after a purported
impeachment of the Speaker. Hon Adewale Omirin, has staged a comeback on
Wednesday April 1st 2015 after the presidential election result was announced
by INEC, delcalring Gen. Mohammadu Buhari as the president-elect of the
country.
According to
report, the letter which was said to have been sent to the governor by the All Progressive
Congress (APC) lawmakers, titled Re: Notice of Allegations of Gross Misconduct,
thus eight impeachable allegations have been labeled against the state governor
Ayodele Fayose.
These allegations
include: invasion of the House of Assembly with thugs and miscreants,
instigating April 1st unconstitutional takeover of the House by seven
legislators to sit in contravention of Section 96(2) of the Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, prevention of the nineteen APC legislative members
from performing legislative duties with the use of security agents and armed
thugs and sponsoring an unlawful impeachment process in the house.
Other allegations
listed in the notice include spending Ekiti State funds without the requisite
constitutional approval in contravention of the constitution, running the
government of Ekiti State without legally constituted Executive Council in
contravention of Section 192(2) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, operating
an illegal 2014 Budget as well as sponsoring and instigating illegal sitting of
the House in contravention of Section 96(1) of the Constitution.
The lawmakers have
given the governor seven days notice to respond to the allegations. In a swift
reaction, the governor condemned the lawmakers accusing them of acting like
jesters.
Governor Ayodele Fayose
who said he read the notice of the impeachment like any other person through
the online, noted that Adewale Omirin had seized being a speaker of the House
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