JUST IN: Speaker Impeached, Replacement Elected (DETAILS)

JUST IN: Speaker Impeached, Replacement Elected (DETAILS)

Gboyega Aribisogan, the Speaker of the Ekiti State Assembly, has been impeached and suspended indefinitely by the Assembly.

Olubunmi Adelugba has been elected as the new Speaker of the House.

Seventeen of the 25 members impeached the Speaker and replaced him.

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The Assembly Complex had been sealed because members were embroiled in a squabble over the death of former Speaker Funminiyi Afuye.

Afuye, 66, died on October 19 at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest.

A month after his death, the parliament held an election, and Aribisogan, the Assembly’s representative for Ikole 1 Constituency and a two-term lawmaker, was elected.

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On Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Aribisogan accused the state’s immediate past governor, Kayode Fayemi, of conspiring with members of the state legislature to impeach him.

“The majority of members of Assembly voted for me but few of them who felt perhaps I did not follow the directive of the former governor, Dr Fayemi, thought that they would make the state ungovernable for even the administration,” Aribisogan said last night.

“I didn’t have any quarrel with him (Fayemi). I sent a message to him even last night asking, ‘What is happening? Am I no longer one of your loyalists? Why did you not congratulate me?’

“Up till now that I’m speaking with you, he has not done anything. Otherwise, he has been going around calling our members to go and impeach me tomorrow. That is the truth.”