SUPREMACY SHOWDOWN BTW ONDO HOUSE SPEAKER & CHIEF JUDGE

The impeachment process of the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr Agboola Ajayi,  by the state House of Assembly was set in motion on Tuesday when Fourteen members of the Assembly signed the notice while nine opposed the impeachment process.

The letter to request for a seven men panel was subsequently sent to the state CJ in commencement of the process.
The letter titled “Request to set up 7-man panel pursuant to section 188(5) of 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).

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But the Chief Judge of Ondo State, Justice Olanrewaju Akeredolu, rejected the letter by the Assembly to constitute the panel that would investigate the allegations leveled against the deputy governor for the impeachment process.

Stating that the House had not completed the constitutional process that would make her set up an investigative panel.

Her request to do so is one that name multiply grounds for the process to be carried out.

In her words;” The Honourable members of the House of Assembly have not completed the constitutional process that would lead your (Speaker) very good self to invite my humble self to set up a panel of 7 to investigate the allegation of gross misconduct as stipulated in the constitution.

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Furthermore, I wish to bring to your notice a copy of letter which I received earlier today (Thursday) from Kayode Olagoke SAN, which tells me clearly that the matter of impeachment of Hon. Alfred Agboola Ajayi, Deputy Governor of Ondo State is sub judice.”