The impeached Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Adewale Omirin, has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain the Assembly from further carrying on with any form of legislative function.
Omirin and his impeached Deputy, Adetunji Orisalade, prayed the court to restrain legislative activities in the Ekiti Assembly pending when a suit they filed in opposition to their impeachment would be resolved.
The two were on November 20, 2014 impeached on the floor of the House by seven members of the House belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The other plaintiffs in the motion filed before Justice Saliu Saidu are the 17 All Progressives Congress members of the Ekiti House.
The defendants, 14 in number, include the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose (8th respondent), the current Speaker of the House (1st defendant), his Deputy, Olayinka Abeni (7th defendant), the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba and the Department of State Services.
Also joined as defendants are the three commissioners cleared by the House under Olugbemi, namely, Oweseni Ajayi (Attorney-General), Kayode Eso (Commissioner for Works) and Toyin Ojo (Commissioner for Finance).
Other defendants are members of the House loyal to Olugbemi, namely Samuel Ajibola, Adeojo Alexander, Adeloye Adeyinka, Isreal Ajiboye, Fatunbi Olajide and the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti.
In the application, Omirin and others asked Justice Saidu to make an order of interim injunction restraining Olugbemi and Abeni from parading themselves or acting as the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, respectively, of the House.
Among others prayers they also asked the court to restrain Fayose and his agents “from generally interfering in any manner with the legislative functions of the plaintiffs and particularly from recognising, dealing, associating or relating with or assigning duties or responsibilities that would validate the illegal assumption of duties of the 12th, 13th and 14th defendants as competent commissioners of Ekiti State Government.”
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