Ekiti Assembly, Peaceful, Aribisogan's Impeachment, Constitutional - Aribasoye

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The attention of the Ekiti State House of Assembly has been drawn to a letter circulating on the social media written by a combination of Senior Advocates of Nigeria. 


The letter is about the concern of the legal luminaries led by Aare Afe Babalola about the recent change of leadership in the Ekiti State house of Assembly leading to the impeachment of Rt. Hon Gboyega Aribisogan who was replaced with Rt. Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba. 


We recognise the right of the legal luminaries as stakeholders in Ekiti state and we respect their opinion and advice but that is where it ends. 


We wish to let the reading public know that members of Ekiti state House of Assembly feel a sense of injustice by the one sided opinion  and biased intervention of the legal luminaries who are also elderstatemen. The principle of justice all over the world is that all sides to a conflict must be heard and it is only then that justice could be seen to have been done. 


It is unfortunate that our elderstatemen did not hear from the side of the new Speaker and the remaining 16 members who impeached the former Speaker, Rt. Hon. Gboyega Aribisogan and elected Rt. Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba. 


For the avoidance of doubt, Rt. Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba remains the validly elected Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly and she enjoys the support of overwhelming majority of the Honourable members, party leadership and the government of Ekiti State. 


Therefore, the advice of the legal luminaries that Rt. Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba who was duly elected by 17 members  should stop parading herself as the Speaker of the Ekiti state House of Assembly is unwarranted and we believe this is based on wrong information by the impeached Speaker. 


The House has neither breached any section of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria nor its own Standing Rules concerning the impeachment of  Rt. Hon. Aribisogan and the election of Rt. Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba on Monday, November 21 2022. Rt. Hon. Aribisogan was duly served an impeachment notice and was thereafter impeached by 2/3rd of members of the whole house. 


We however wish to remind our legal luminaries that when a serious infraction of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was committed during the PDP  administration of Governor Ayodele Fayose where 7 members impeached the then Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adewale Omirin, we didn't see a convergence of legal luminaries condemning the action. Indeed one of the legal luminaries provided legal representation for Governor Fayose and the 7 members. He was subsequently rewarded first with an appointment to the Judicial Service Commission and subsequently appointed on the Council of Ekiti State University. In addition, this same Rt. Hon. Aribisogan was equally suspended by the fifth Assembly during the tenure of Governor Fayose but there was no whimper from our legal luminaries. 


We wish to reinstate that peace has  returned to the Ekiti State House of Assembly since the pathologically rebellious and inordinately ambitious Aribisogan was impeached and suspended alongside his cohorts. 


Rt. Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba has presided over parliamentaries and plenaries with majority of members present. She has announced appointment of new principal officers and she has constituted all committees of the House. 


Our immediate preoccupation now is the passage of the 2023 budget. This is what is of importance to all those living in Ekiti State. The relevant committees of the house have invited MDAs for the defence of their budgets so that the Appropriation bill can be passed into law within the stipulated time frame. 


Once again, we thank our legal luminaries for their opinion. The  House  is now focused on delivering its mandate in furtherance of the socio- economic development of Ekiti State. We do not need any further distractions at this time.


Our legal luminaries  are rest assured that we will call on them whenever we need their counsel.

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