Aribisogan polled 15 votes against 10 votes for Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba who represents Emure Constituency to win the election.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Ekiti State House of Assembly on Monday impeached its Speaker, Gboyega Aribisogan, and suspended him indefinitely.
This is coming just days after he was elected on November 15.
Aribisogan was elected following the demise of the former Speaker, the Late Rt. Hon. Funminiyi Afuye. Afuye died last month after a brief illness.
Aribisogan polled 15 votes against 10 votes for Hon. Olubunmi Adelugba who represents Emure Constituency to win the election.
Following his suspension, Adelugba has now been elected as the new speaker.
Seventeen out of the 25 members impeached Aribisogan. The reason for his removal was not immediately apparent.
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The lawmaker, who represents Ikole 1 Constituency, on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, accused the immediate past governor of the state, Kayode Fayemi, of working with members of the state legislature to impeach him.
“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,” Aribisogan said.
“I didn’t have any quarrel with him (Fayemi). 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. That is the truth.”