We Were In Owo On Gov Akeredolu’s Invitation, Nine Ondo Anti-Impeachment Lawmakers Insist |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

A former Deputy Speaker, Ondo state House of Assembly, Ogundeji Iroju, has shed light on the visit of the nine anti-impeachment Lawmakers in the state House of Assembly who were sited at Owo, country home of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Sunday.

Iroju, who was removed as Deputy Speaker of the  Assembly due to his hardline posture and refusal to support the impeachment of Mr Agboola Ajayi as Deputy Governor last year, explained that the visit was purely on invitation from the Governor.

According to him, he and other eight Lawmakers that were opposed to the impeachment of Ajayi did not go to beg Governor Akeredolu.

“Why will anyone say I went to Owo to beg Akeredolu? Did I offend him? Beg him for what?

So, I couldn’t have gone to Owo to beg Akeredolu, because I didn’t offend him.

I went to Owo with my colleagues on the invitation of the governor himself.

“Not only me, all the 26 members of the House of Assembly got an invitation from the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ondo state House of Assembly, who is authorised to issue such invitation, that the governor had requested to see all the 26 members in his house at Owo today (Sunday).

“On that note, being the Governor of the state, he has the right to invite us and we went to honour the invitation.”

On what transpired at the meeting, he disclosed that “on getting there, he addressed us and asked us what led to the crisis and everybody said his own side and that was how we left the place.

“So nobody had gone there to beg him. What we had done was about the impeachment of the former Deputy Governor which nine of us dissociated ourselves from, and it is our constitutional right to dissociate or to agree and that’s not an offence against anybody,”