Newly elected Ekiti Assembly Speaker, Aribisogan impeached, Adelugba takes over

Less than a week after assuming office, the Ekiti Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Gboyega Aribisogan was on Monday removed by his colleagues.

Aribisogan was elected Speaker of the Assembly on Tuesday last week, following the death of former Speaker, Funminiyi Afuye, who died on October 19.

After his removal, the Speaker was also handed an indefinite suspension, while Olubunmi Adelugba was elected to take over as the new Speaker.

Aribisogan was removed by 17 out of the 25 members of the Assembly.

The deposed Speaker had, while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, alleged that the immediate past governor of state, Dr Kayode Fayemi and some members of the House were working to impeach him.  

Security operative had sealed off the assembly complex on the suspicion that mayhem could be unleashed on the facility, following Aribisogan’s emergence as Speaker.

“The majority of members of Assembly voted for me but few of them who felt perhaps I did not follow the directive of the former governor, Dr Fayemi, thought that they would make the state ungovernable for even the administration.

“I didn’t have any quarrel with him. I sent a message to him even last night asking, ‘What is happening? Am I no longer one of your loyalists? Why did you not congratulate me?’

 “Up till now that I’m speaking with you, he has not done anything. Otherwise, he has been going around calling our members to go and impeach me tomorrow(Today). That is the truth.

“As I’m speaking with you, seven of our members are locked up in Fem Guest House in Ado Ekiti, planning on how to impeach me tomorrow in cahoots with some of his former aides like the former commissioner for justice,” Abisogan had alleged.