According to the Speaker of the Fifth Assembly, Rt. Hon. Kola Oluwawole, who addressed a press conference in company with other members of the House on Monday, Omirin had written a letter to the House asking that his purported “unconstitutional” impeachment be reverted
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The statement said: “How do you reconcile this inciting broadcast with a plea he made for peace not quite 24 hours earlier, which Ekiti people and indeed Nigerians thought was a good move by the governor to thaw the frozen relationship between him and the lawmakers? This is a confirmation of what Dr Omirin said in his Sunday Punch interview that the governor can’t be trusted in any peace move
The Majority Leader, Churchill Adedipe of Irepodun/Ifelodun Constituency 1, explained that the sitting ought to have taken place in the hallowed chamber on April 7, 2015 but members were waylaid by thugs who mounted roadblock, threatening their lives with dangerous weapons, thereby making them to abandon going to the Assembly
The governor, who described the purported impeachment notice posted online by the APC lawmakers as joke of the century, said: “The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly is Hon Dele Olugbemi and not Dr Adewale Omirin
A statement on their behalf by Adewale Omirin, the Special Adviser on Media to Speaker Adewale Omirin, said the lawmakers at a parliamentary meeting held within the Assembly Complex on Tuesday expressed their confidence in the President-elect’s ability to face the challenges of the nation’s growth and development, saying that Nigerians’ belief in Buhari’s life of discipline and anti-corruption stance accounted for the massive votes he received across the country
Justice Saliu Saidu had adjourned the suit after counsel to the plaintiffs, Norrison Quakers (SAN), informed the court of the challenges of effecting service of court processes on the defendants
Omirin also promised to support Governor Ayo Fayose’s government, adding that the assembly headed by him had no plan to impeach the governor as being insinuated
According to a statement by his spokesperson, Wole Olujobi, there was a distress call in the neighbourhood where Omirin was a visitor, that some suspected thugs were laying a siege
Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, Omirin said the APC lawmakers acted within the law to conduct its sitting in a public building in the state capital
The party challenged Omirin to explain the purpose of the money he confessed to have collected from the governor of the state and justify the sensibility in collecting such huge amount of money in this situation of financial mess, which his party, the All Progressives Congress, had dragged the state into in its vengeful missions
The judge granted the plaintiff leave to serve the defendants with the processes, outside their jurisdiction by substituted means, which is by placing advertisements in some national dailies
Omirin, who was speaking on the telephone on Monday, while responding to questions by journalists, said the coast was not yet clear for the 19 lawmakers elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress to come to the state
Olatubosun said: “It is curious that a day after Governor Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, issued a press release accusing APC of plan to storm Ekiti with thugs recruited from a neighbouring state, the police that are supposed to play a neutral role also said in their own press release indicating that the opposition politicians are planning to recruit thugs from a neighbouring state for violence
In a release issued on Sunday by the EMGG and signed by its Secretary, Dr. Abiodun Aina, the group warned that any attempt by the All Progressives Congress lawmakers to throw the state into chaos will be resisted by whatever means
The statement said: “Rather than reciprocating the gesture, they have occupied themselves by holding secret meetings, mapping out strategies on how they would destabilize the state and making it ungovernable for the governor
Omirin, while responding on a telephone call monitored on the African Independent Television, said: “The 19 APC (All Progressives Congress) members are intact and we are outside the state because the place is not safe for us
A statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Modupe Alade, also called on the police to provide the full paraphernalia of office to the new Speaker, Rt. Hon. Dele Ogungbemi, and the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Abeni Olayinka, without delay
Hon. Dele Olugbemi, who acted as Protem Speaker on Monday when the PDP members sat and approved the three commissioner-nominees, 12 Special Advisers and reconstitution of the dissolved 16 councils in the state, said Omirin, a member of the All Progressives Congress, had not been impeached and removed as widely speculated
A statement by the Speaker’s Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, said the latest allegation of demanding N135 million for the screening of Fayose’s commissioner-nominees was a propaganda taken too far and against the grains of decency in a fledgling democracy
The group, in the petition signed by its President, Femi Omoyajowo, and Secretary, Hon. Bolu Alabi, said the speaker contravened the oath he took on August 6, 2011 when he was elected speaker of the assembly.