Don't setup probe panel against Fayose, Ekiti PDP lawmakers warns CJ

The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, was today warned by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) factional leader of the State House of Assembly, Dele Olugbemi, that no impeachment panel should be inaugurated to probe the state governor, Ayodele Fayose over alleged constitutional breach.

The factional leader was apparently reacting to a letter written to the CJ by the impeached  Speaker and leader of the All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin yesterday.

Specifically, the letter had directed Justice Daramola to raise a seven-man panel within seven days of getting the letter to investigate the governor alongside his deputy, Dr. Oluosla Kolapo, over allegations of impunity, violence, stalking and other constitutional breaches.

The Omirin led faction relied on Section 101 of the 1999 Constitution as amended, which according to them, gives powers to Assembly to regulate its sittings, including sitting in a public building within the state capital if the lives of members are not safe.

But Olugbemi argued that the said letter directing the CJ to raise the investigative panel did not emanate from the office of the Speaker because Omirin had been impeached on November 20.

Acccording to him, "We never wrote any letter to the Chief Judge directing him to constitute an investigative panel, neither was the House involved in any impeachment proceedings against the Executive Governor of our great state.

"It is common knowledge that all legitimate sessions of any House of Assembly takes place only inside the hallowed chambers of House of Assembly. Indeed, any other purportedly sitting of the House at any other location outside the Hallowed Chamber of the House of Assembly is null and void and of no effect whatsoever.

"This is more so when such sittings purportedly took place without the principal officers here present with me now. I have also copied the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Director of State Services and the Commissioner of Police so that they can jointly assist with the apprehension of this impostor and his cohorts before they cause further breakdown of law, order and further havoc on Ekiti State and it’s people."

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