SAN FRANCISCO, November 17, (THEWILL) – Ekiti State Government said on Monday that there was no truth in the rumours making the round that the Speaker of the State House of Assembly had been impeached.
“Our attention has been drawn to the news aired by the AIT that the Ekiti State Speaker has been impeached by seven members,” Idowu Adelusi, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ayodele Fayose said in a statement.
According to him, “I am not supposed to respond to the lies aired by the AIT purposely to misinform 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.”
Adelusi said “If they remove their leaders and appoint new ones, that is their business,” stressing however that “ no speaker was removed.”
The Governor’s aide stated further: “Nine members of the House sat today to approve the commissioner nominees, Special Advisers and the Local Government Caretaker Committees for the 16 local government councils.
“There are 26 members in the House and the House standing order allows a quorum of nine members to sit and appoint speaker plenipotentiary to preside.”
“So, what transpired in the House is within the law. APC is only being hypocritical. We all know what is happening in APC-controlled state of Edo.”
“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.”
