Impeachment: Ekiti APC assembly members file notice of discontinuance

Impeached Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Omirin Adewale Albert, alongside 18 other lawmakers of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), yesterday filed a notice of discontinuance in the suit initiated against seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lawmakers in the state.

The reasons for the notice of discontinuance dated April 7, 2015, and signed by all the APC lawmakers before Justice Saliu Saidu, was however not given. It reads in part, "Take notice that the plaintiffs doth hereby wholly discontinue suit number FHC/CS/1823/14."

Aside the impeached Speaker, other APC lawmakers that gave accent to the development includes; Deputy Speaker,  Orisalede Adetunji Taiwo, Adedipe Churchill Olubunmi, Ajaiyi Isaac Adebowale Alabi Olajide Idowu,  Fasakin Kayode Ajayi, Ogundele Gabriel Folorunso,  Oriniowo Olubunmi Anike,  Ogunlola Olubunmi Omowunmi, Adu Clement Sunday, Agidi Peter, Oguniride Ojo Olasheinde, Odu Ayodele Olurotimi,  Erinle Samuel Olusegun, Shittu Ahmed Oluwaseyi,  Daramola Israel Oluyomi, Olabode Odebunmi Gbenga, and Boluwade Bolics Kehinde.‬

It would be recalled that Omirin and the other lawmakers had taken the state governor, Ayodele Fayose to court together with the seven PDP lawmakers, which include, Dele Olugbemi,  Samuel Ajibola, Adeojo Alexander, Adeloye Adeyinka, Isreal Olowo Ajiboye, Fatunbi Olajide, and Olayinka Abeni, the Department of State Security (DSS), Ekiti State Commissioner of Police (CP), Owoseni Ajayi, Mr. Kayode Oso, and Chief Toyin Ojo, seeking to nullify the speaker's purported impeachment on November 20, 2014.‬

Omirin alongside other aggrieved APC lawmakers are praying the court for an order restraining Dele Odugbemi, and  Olayinka Abeni, from parading themselves or otherwise acting in the capacity of Speaker and Deputy Speaker, respectively, of the Ekiti State House of Assembly as same is illegal, unconstitutional and ultra vires pending the determination of the suit filed before the court motion.

They also prayed for, "An   order of interim injunction restraining the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and their contingents, servants or privies from exercising powers against the plaintiffs and their assigns or privies, other than the lawful operational use of their powers as to interrupt, retard or otherwise interfere with the constitutional exercise of the legislative functions of the plaintiffs within the premises of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Quarters.‬"

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