Impeachment: Aiyedatiwa Sues Ondo Governor, Assembly
Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, on Monday, dragged the state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and the state House of Assembly before the court over the moves to impeach him.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that the Assembly had last Wednesday al commenced impeachment proceedings against the deputy governor for gross misconduct.
Through his lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Aiyedatiwa approached the State High Court in Akure, seeking an order to halt the impeachment move.
In the suit marked AK/348/2023, Aiyedatiwa is praying the court to declare that “the defendants are not entitled to take any steps in pursuit of the removal of the claimant from his office as the deputy governor of the State in flagrant violation of his constitutional and fundamental rights.”
He wants the court to declare that “the defendants are not entitled to constitute themselves into investigators, prosecutors and judge over trumped-up allegations against the claimant in relation to his office, tenure and status as the deputy governor of the State.”
Aiyedatiwa also, among others, wants the court to restrain the defendants and their agents “from interfering with, restricting, disempowering and/or preventing the claimant from discharging his constitutional duties and functions as the duly-elected deputy governor of Ondo State in a joint and equal ticket with the governor.”
He also wants the court to make an order “reinstating/restoring the full and total rights and privileges attached or accruing to the office of the claimant as duly elected deputy governor of the State, which include, but not limited to the restoration of all media aides and press crew attached to the office of the claimant as deputy governor of Ondo State.”
Those listed as defendants in the suit were the Ondo State Government, the Governor , the Ondo State House of Assembly, the Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, the Clerk of the Ondo State House of Assembly and the Chief Judge of Ondo State.
- Kazeem Badmus
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