Ekiti assembly impeach speaker Aribisogan, elects Adelugba

Gboyega Aribisogan, the speaker of the Ekiti State Assembly, has been impeached and sent on indefinite leave by the Ekiti House lawmakers.

Meanwhile, Olubunmi Adelugba was chosen as the new speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly by 17 of the state’s 25 legislators.

Since the passing of the previous speaker Funminiyi Afuye on October 19 at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital following a heart arrest, the Assembly’s leadership has been in disarray.

Members of the Ekiti State Assembly had split into competing groups over who should be the speaker, hence the building had been locked.

A month after Afuye’s passing, Aribisogan, a two-term politician representing Ikole 1 Constituency in the Assembly, was elected Speaker.

Aribisogan had charged Kayode Fayemi, the immediately preceding governor of the, with conspiring with state legislators to remove him from office on Monday.

“The majority of members of Assembly voted for me but few of them who felt perhaps I did not follow the directive of the former governor, Dr Fayemi, thought that they would make the state ungovernable for even the administration,” Aribisogan said on Channels Television.

“I didn’t have any quarrel with him (Fayemi). I sent a message to him even last night asking, ‘What is happening? Am I no longer one of your loyalists? Why did you not congratulate me?’

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“Up till now that I’m speaking with you, he has not done anything. Otherwise, he has been going around calling our members to go and impeach me tomorrow. That is the truth.”

The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Gboyega Aribisogan, has alleged on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics that the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and some members of the state house of assembly are working together on his impeachment.

Recall that security operative sealed off the Ekiti assembly complex on the suspicion that mayhem could be unleashed on the facility, following Aribisogan’s emergence as Speaker on Tuesday.

But the Speaker fingered Fayemi, blaming the former governor for failing to acknowledge him since his election as Speaker.