Impeachment Notice Served on Ondo State Deputy Governor

Apparently acting the script of the Governor Olusegun Mimiko, the State House of Assembly on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 issued a notice to be served on Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi.

The State House of Assembly raised allegations of gross misconduct against Olanusi who was said to have traveled abroad for medical checkup having written a letter of intention dated Friday, April 17^th, 2015 with Ref. No: OBG/A/136/67 informing the Governor his desire to go abroad for routine medical checkup. 

 

Twenty out of twenty six house members supported the motion to serve the Deputy Governor with impeachment notice based on seven impeachable offences raised against him.

According to political watchers of Ondo State polity, the latest development is nothing but a backlash of the Deputy Governor defection to All Progressive Congress (APC).

 

 Reacting to the impeachment notice served on Olanusi, Ondo State Publicity Secretary for APC, Omo’ba Abayomi Adesanya, in a release said “Baba (the Deputy Governor) had since traveled out on Saturday, 18^th of April , 2015. So it is laughable for the rubber-stamp House of Assembly to have claimed it has served the deputy Governor an impeachment notice knowing fully well that the law does not permit serving impeachment in absentia”.