In compliance with the directive of the Leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), mediating in the crisis between Ondo State Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, one of the suits stalling the impeachment process against Aiyedatiwa has been withdrawn.
At a meeting with warring factions in the crisis, the leadership of the APC had advised the Deputy Governor to withdraw suits filed to stop the assembly and parties from impeaching him.
Justice O. Akintan- Osadebay of the Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, on Tuesday struck out an application by Aiyedatiwa, praying the court to restrain the State Chief Judge from setting up an investigative panel as ordered by the state House of Assembly.
The Deputy Governor had brought the application dated 13th October, 2023, asking the high court to interprete section 188 of the 1999 constitution as amended, if the State Chief Judge has power to extend the seven days granted by the law to set up an investigative panel to probe the Assembly’s allegations against the Deputy Governor.
At the resumed hearing of the case, the Counsel to the Deputy Governor, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, moved to withdraw the application, while the Counsel to the State House of Assembly, Femi Emodamori, did not oppose the withdrawal.The presiding judge, Justice Osadebay subsequently struck out the application.
The same State High Court had last week fined Aiyedatiwa a sum of #200,000 to be paid to the respondents, the State House of Assembly, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and others, due to absence of the deputy governor’s legal team in the court.
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