My impeachment is the greatest joke of the year - ‘Impeached’ Ekiti speaker, Adewale Omirin

<script type="text/javascript"> <script size='468x60' src='http://srvpub.com/adServe/banners?tid=22528_31474_5' type='text/javascript'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6630608044863529"; google_ad_slot = "4870332095"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; </script> <script src='//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js' type='text/javascript'> </script> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><div xmlns='http://ift.tt/lH0Osb'><br /><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> </div><br /><br/><br /><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'><a href="http://ift.tt/1qChtzb" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="http://ift.tt/1qChtzb" width="640"/> </a> </div><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The ‘impeached’ Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, has described his purported removal by members of the Assembly as “the greatest joke of the year.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Omirin, who addressed a press conference, in company with other Ekiti All Progressives Congress lawmakers, at an hotel in Lagos on Thursday, said he was still the Speaker.<br/><br /><br/><br /><a id="more" name="more"> </a><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He described as laughable that seven members of the House, all members of the Peoples Democratic Party, could impeach him when it was clearly stipulated by law that only a two-third majority could remove a speaker.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He said since the Ekiti Assembly had 26 members, it would require at least 18 members of the Assembly to remove him.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He said, “My purported impeachment by the seven PDP members is the greatest joke of the year. I was elected on June 6, 2011 by 25 members and I can only be removed from that position by 18 members, which is the two-third majority.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“That means 17-and-a-half honourable members cannot impeach me. So, whatever they are saying is a figment of their own imagination. And the sitting they had today (Thursday) is null and void because they are just seven.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />“So they could not even form a quorum in the first instance so how can a sitting that could not even form a quorum, remove the Speaker? So they are just jokers of the century. I still remain the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly.”<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Omirin said he and other members of the Assembly were willing to work with Fayose in the overall interest of the state.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />Omirin’s deputy, Mr. Adetunji Orisalade, argued that only the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker (in the absence of the Speaker) could summon a sitting. He, therefore, wondered how seven members of the Assembly were able to meet and impeach Omirin.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He denied the allegations that the lawmakers were out to frustrate Fayose by refusing to approve commissioners for him.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />The Majority Leader of the Ekiti Assembly, Mr. Churchill Adedipe, said it was unfortunate that Governor Ayodele Fayose was supporting illegality.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />He alleged that Fayose’s grand plan was to weaken the judiciary and the legislature in order to become the “ultimate ruler” of Ekiti.<br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br />via nigerianeye</div><br /></div>

My impeachment is the greatest joke of the year - ‘Impeached’ Ekiti speaker, Adewale Omirin

The ‘impeached’ Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, has described his purported removal by members of the A...

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