The immediate past Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Muhammad, to prevail upon Chief Judges of tates to stop aiding illegal impeachments in the country.
Adeyeye frowned at the way and manner impeachment has been turned to an instrument of harassment and settlement of political scores by the legislative arm of government in the country.
Adeyeye, who was reacting to the failed attempt by the All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly to impeach the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, noted that in a decent society where everyone was sure that the Chief Judge of the state would not participate in an impeachment process in which due process of the law was not followed, the lawmakers would not have been so desperate to carry out the impeachment of Fayose and his deputy, Dr. Kolapo Olusola, in four days.
The former minister wondered how it would have been possible to get the Chief Judge of Ekiti State to hurriedly constitute the required seven-man panel, inaugurate the panel and get the panel to conclude its sitting in three days.
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