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<\/p>\nOlotu who spoke with DAILY POST on Thursday maintained that within the spate of six months the former leadership exhausted N1.5 billion budgetary allocation of the house meant to last one year.<\/p>\n
He stated that the impeachment is in accordance with the law as 18 out of 26 members of the house supported their removal, which he said formed two-third majority needed and was also witnessed by the clerk of the house, Mr. Bode Adeyelu.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cIn accordance with the rule guiding the house and by the power conferred on members of the house, the house as at today has successfully impeached the former speaker and deputy speaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cImmediately after their removal, Rt. Hon. Olamide George from Akure North state constituency was elected as speaker and was duly sworn in by the clerk of the house. Rt. Hon. Abimbola Fajolu representing Ile-Oluji\/Oke-Igbo was also sworn in.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, 18 members moved for their removal, that\u2019s to say that\u2019s two-third of the members of the house, so we\u2019ve fulfilled that requirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many reasons for their removal, but I want you to know that changing leadership is an inherent right of the members of the house. But this former speaker of the house has shown great incompetence. The have run the house aground financially.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust for an instance as at June this year, the Speaker and the deputy speaker have exhausted all budgetary allocation for the house with the knowledge of the member which is to the tune of 1.5 billion Naira.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s when we stumbled on this, a budget that is supposed to run for a year they exhausted it within six months, which was already exhausted as at June this year. They never followed due process. If you have to run the finances of the house we have cash allocation committee which is their duty. It\u2019s the parliament that must approve such monies not the sole responsibility of the speaker.<\/p>\n
Also, Rt. Hon. Fatai Olotu who was once a former Deputy Speaker of the house has admonished the Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu not to interfere with the development.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe speaker and the deputy are grossly incompetent in running the affairs of the house and they are in the habit of blackmailing members, because they know that their time is over.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have even informed the executive that we don\u2019t want them again. But they have been telling the executive that once they are removed, the governor would be removed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in the house for some time, there\u2019s no nexus between removing the leadership of house and that of the governor. Because the governor has not committed any impeachable offence. To best of our knowledge the governor has not done anything wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were elected by members, if the they say they no longer want you, then you comply.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have never seen that kind of leadership that has run the house in the manner that does not have regards for the house.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are lots of other things we would address the press in due course. But the house has carried out its constitutional role. We don\u2019t have any problem with the governor; we don\u2019t have any problem with the executive. The executive should stay out of this.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last time we impeached the deputy speaker, the pressure was on us. The pressure was just too much we have to reverse it. The reversal was unconstitutional, it was illegal, he stated.<\/p>\n
Also, the new Speaker, Olamide George said that the impeachment was aimed at correcting the series of anomalies of the former principal officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are lots of undercovers going on the house and these are reasons why members have to come together and changed the leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn line with the rules of the House, two third which is eighteen members signed the impeachment of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, it is a new dawn for us. We are not fighting the government. I belong to the APC and I stand with my party\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The spokesperson of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Fatai Olotu, representing Akoko North-East state constituency at the house, has disclosed that the impeachment of the former Speaker, Rt. Hon. Bamidele Oleyelogun and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Iroju Ogundeji was due to alleged incompetence and financial misappropriation. Olotu who spoke with DAILY POST […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1541],"class_list":["post-60054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ondo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}