Our attention has been drawn to the news aired by the AIT that the Ekiti State Speaker has
been impeached by 7 members.
Well, I am not supposed to respond to the lies aired by the AIT purposely to misinformed
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.
If they remove their leaders and appoint new ones, that is
their business. However, to educate the public, no speaker was removed. 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 9 members to sit and appoint
speaker plenipotentiary to preside.
So, what transpired in the House is within the law.
APC are only being hypocritical. APC-controlled state of Edo, we all know what is happening
there. 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
A press statement by Mr. Idowu Adelusi, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Ayo Fayose.