Nigerian Senior Advocate Kayode Ajulo has criticized President Bola Tinubu‘s involvement in the Ondo State leadership crisis.
Speaking on Arise Television on Monday, the SAN expressed his position.
According to The PUNCH, on November 25, Tinubu intervened in the issue and urged the opposing sides to accept peace and preserve the status quo, suggesting that the state’s months-long political crisis may have come to a conclusion.
The state House of Assembly Speaker, Oladiji Olamide, decided to put an end to any attempts to impeach Deputy Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, while Aiyedatiwa committed to support all commissioners and officials in managing the state’s business.
Tinubu conducted discussions with state representatives, encompassing All Progressives members.
Aiyedatiwa who declared his decision to maintain the status quo and unite all the warring factions said: “I want to say that I pledge to all of you that I embrace every one of you. I put behind all that has happened before now. I’ve let go and also let God, just as the President has advised us.
“And I want to say that no offence, no guile in my mind whatsoever. All that has happened is politics. Impeachment is part of politics. If you survive it, it is also politics. It has come. I’ve survived it and every other thing in his past.
“It is one big family and our father has intervened to bring all the children together to remain under the same family and with the position that I occupy, I will carry every one of you along in every decision that needs to be taken and everything that we do we will work together; the executive and the legislature will work together to ensure that governance is on the right track.”
While faulting Tinubu’s intervention, Ajulo believed the President did not carry the Attorney General along.
“I say this with the fact that President Bola Tinubu today happens to have one of the best lawyers as the Attorney General, as a chief law officer that should advise him.
“This is someone I have high regard for. I am very sure and I want to believe he is not being carried along to advise him properly,” he said.
He added, “The President has made a mistake. The President should have allowed the constitutional provisions to take its course. Ondo State people are sophisticated. The right thing needs to be done.”
