Ondo State House of Assembly has suspended the impeachment proceedings against the state Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
Gatekeepers News reports that the House said it made the decision during its plenary session on Thursday after the State’s Chief Judge, Justice Olusegun Odusola, refused to set up a panel to probe the embattled deputy governor.
Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Olatunji Oshati, who stated this on Friday, said the House would abide by the court’s order, hence the suspension of the proceedings on the impeachment.
He said, “We have considered the letter which is everywhere in the public domain and we are halting the impeachment process until the order of the Federal High Court is vacated.
“It is not about being arrogant with power, it is about holding public officers accountable. It also shows that the process of impeachment transcends the monopoly of the legislature as we can see that the judiciary has stalled it.
“This is to show that it is not about witch-hunting, it is about carrying out our oversight functions,”
Justice Odusola had on Wednesday informed the Assembly of his inability to set up the panel.
The CJ was said to have cited a subsisting court’s ex parte order restraining him from carrying out the directive of the Assembly.
