Court Sacks Ondo Deputy Speaker, Reinstates Iroju Fidelis David in Akure An Akure High Court yesterday voided the appointment of Mr. Samuel Aderoboye as the deputy speaker of the Ondo State House of
An Akure High Court yesterday voided the appointment of Mr. Samuel Aderoboye as the deputy speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly and ordered the reinstatement of Hon. Ogundeji Iroju, as the deputy speaker of the assembly.
The assembly later appointed Aderoboye as the deputy speaker, the position he was occupying as at the time of the court’s judgment was delivered yesterday. However, the assembly, through the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Charles Titiloye, said that the impeachment followed due process as the impeachment proceeding was served through substituted means.
Also, the judge said that there was no parliamentary resolution before the purported impeachment was carried out and that not all members were present during the impeachment as required by the rules of the assembly and the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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