The Chief Press Secretary to Ekiti State Government, Mr. Idowu Adelusi has denied reports that the State Speaker has been impeached. The CPS statement reads:
“Our attention has been drawn to the news that the Ekiti State Speaker has been impeached by 7 members.
Well, I am not supposed to respond to the lies aired purposely to misinform members of the public because the legislature is another arm of government and whatever they do in their chamber is their business and the executive arm has nothing to do with that. If they remove their leaders and appoint new ones, that is their business. However, to educate the public, no speaker was removed.
Nine members of the House sat today to approve the commissioner nominees, Special Advisers and the Local Government Caretaker Committees for the 16 local government councils. There are 26 members in the House and the House standing order allows a quorum of 9 members to sit and appoint speaker plenipotentiary to preside.
So, what transpired in the House is within the law.
APC are only being hypocritical. We all know what is happening in the APC-controlled state of Edo. For over a year now, the state governor has prevented the lawmakers from sitting. He said he was going to renovate the Assembly Complex and PDP lawmakers have been meeting in the dilapidated complex, while APC lawmakers are meeting at the Government House. Also another APC state of Rivers, the judiciary has been shut down for over a year too.”