Gboyega Aribisogan, Speaker of the Ekiti House of Assembly, has accused former Governor Kayode Fayemi of lodging seven lawmakers in a hotel to plot his impeachment. Aribisogan also accused Fayemi of being behind the crisis in the House of Assembly and sponsoring some disgruntled lawmakers and armed thugs to impeach him. The newly elected Speaker said seven out of the 26 lawmakers in the Assembly loyal to Fayemi would move to impeach him on Monday (today).
Some lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly have commenced a closed-door session in the Assembly complex. The assembly complex is under tight security as armed police officers were on Monday stationed around the legislative building. The closed-door session is connected to the leadership crisis in the House of Assembly. However, the number of lawmakers in the complex could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report.
Ekiti State Assembly Speaker, Gboyega Aribisogan, has been illegally impeached and suspended indefinitely by some members of the Assembly loyal to former Governor Kayode Fayemi. Aribisogan identified eight lawmakers who were involved in the impeachment even though the House has 26 lawmakers. Olubunmi Adelugba, who lost to Aribisogan in the election last Tuesday, has now been elected as the new Speaker.
The invasion of the Ekiti State House of Assembly by the police on Wednesday over an alleged security threat was a ruse to prevent the new Speaker of the House, Gboyega Aribisogan, from taking charge, SaharaReporters has learnt. Nigeria Police personnel took over the House of Assembly complex, claiming a security beef-up was necessary to avert an alleged plot by hoodlums to attack the complex. There were armed police officers stationed around the Assembly complex, forcing workers to close early in response to the alleged threat.
The notorious Rapid Response Squad (RRS) unit of the Ekiti State Police Command, acting on the orders of the immediate former state governor, Kayode Fayemi, has detained the Welfare Officer of the Ekiti State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Tope Bankole. SaharaReporters gathered that Bankole was arrested by RRS operatives during the weekend following a petition by Fayemi accusing him of “cyberstalking and criminal character assassination.”