Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, has petitioned the Akure-based state High Court to halt the impeachment proceedings the State House of Assembly has started against him.
Suit No.AK/348/2023 is the number in the suit. The troubled deputy governor, Mr. Ebun Adenoruwa SAN, petitioned the court on Monday asking it to halt the impeachment proceedings against him while the court heard and decided the lawsuit he had filed.
As it wrote to Aiyedatiwa last week regarding an allegation of gross misconduct while he was serving as acting governor, the state house of assembly started the process of impeaching the deputy governor.
The Ondo State Government, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Olumide Oladiji, the Clerk of the Ondo State House of Assembly, and the Chief Judge of Ondo State are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
In the originating summons, the deputy governor was seeking an ” injunction restraining the defendants and their agents, privies and representatives from interfering with, restricting, disempowering and/or preventing the claimant from discharging his constitutional duties and functions as the duly elected deputy governor of Ondo State in a joint and equal ticket with the governor of the Ondo State.
He also sought “an order forthwith reinstating/restoring the total rights and privileges attached or accruing to the office of the Claimant as duly elected Deputy Governor of Ondo State which include, but not limited to the restoration of all media aides and press crew attached to the office of the claimant as Deputy Governor of Ondo State.
Aiyedatiwa sought “an order setting aside any purported process or notice of any allegation of Gross Misconduct against the Claimant on the ground that such process or notice is a violation of Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
