Ekiti Assembly Urges Court to Throw out Impeached Speaker’s Suit Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has been urged to dismiss the suit filed by former Speaker of the Ekiti
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has been urged to dismiss the suit filed by former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olugboyega Aribisogan on grounds that the claimant failed to join proper parties in the suit challenging his impeachment from office.
According to a statement yesterday by the Special Adviser to the Speaker, Odunayo Ogunmola, counsel to the defendants, Chief Rafiu Balogun, filed the Notice of Preliminary Objection at the Registry of the Ekiti State High Court on Monday, which is anchored on 11 grounds and supported by a written address.
The defendants maintained that Aribisogan’s suit has been rendered incompetent because of his failure to join former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, whom he accused of instigating the lawmakers to impeach him; the Ekiti State Police Command, the Commissioner of Police, the Assembly Sergeant-at-Arms and other individuals he described as “powers that be” who are not made parties to the suit.
While pointing out that the case of the claimant as could be gleaned from the Originating Summons and the supporting affidavit is at best speculative, the defendants averred that both documents lack the requisite particulars to sustain the case of the claimant contrary to the provisions of Order 8 of the Ekiti State High Court Rule 2021.
“We urge the court to determine whether paragraphs in the Affidavit in support of the originating which contain damaging/criminal complaints against some persons in authority not joined as defendants are not liable to be struck out or discountenanced and whether this case can be determined without them being made parties, in order not to infringe on their right to fair hearing as the pronouncement of the court will affect them one way or the other.
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