A group, South West Progressive Youth
Movement, has decried the impeachment of Ondo State Deputy Governor, Ali
Olanusi, by the House of Assembly.
It also condemned the lawmakers, questioning their right to impeach the deputy governor.
The body accused Governor Olusegun Mimiko
and the legislators of being guilty of the same offence for which
Olanusi was impeached. It said the governor and the lawmakers should
also be impeached.
Addressing
a press conference in Lagos on Monday, the coordinator of the group,
Taiwo Ajayi, said Mimiko and the lawmakers deserved to be impeached as
well since they defected from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic
Party.
He said, “We condemn Governor Mimiko in
strong terms. Since the Ondo State deputy governor has been impeached
for defecting from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress, members of
the House of Assembly and the governor should be impeached for defecting
from the Labour Party to the PDP.”
The group implored President Goodluck Jonathan to advise Governor Mimiko to rescind the decision in order to avert crisis.
The group also urged former Oyo State
governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, to accept the result of the
governorship election in good faith – for the sake of peace.
The group enjoined Jonathan, the National
Assembly, the police and the Nigeria Bar Association to intervene in
the face-off between Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and the 19
APC lawmakers
Ajayi said, “At the moment, Ekiti is
under siege. We wonder where the governor derives the power to deploy
armed soldiers in the streets of Ado Ekiti without any authority to
question him.
“We wonder why in a democratic setting
like ours, an occupant of one arm of the government will hold another
arm of the government to ransom. This is unbecoming of Governor Fayose.
We are all aware he once paralysed the administration of justice in the
state before he was inaugurated as the governor.
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