The Ekiti State House of Assembly, has elected the first female Speaker in the state after impeaching and suspending indefinitely, the Speaker of the House,
Mr. Gboyega Aribisogan.
The lawmakers, in his stead, elected first female speaker, Olubunmi Adelugba, as the new speaker.
It was gathered that 17 out of the 25 members impeached the Speaker and elected a new one.
Meanwhile, the Assembly Complex has been sealed while fight broke out following the controversy that followed the impeachment.
Recall that the former speaker, Funminiyi Afuye, died at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital on 19 October after suffering cardiac arrest at the age of 66.
Aribisogan, representing Ikole 1 Constituency in the Assembly, and a two-term lawmaker, emerged to replace the late Speaker after a month of his death in an election conducted by the state parliamentarians.
The impeached Aribisogan had been having problems with the former governor of the State, Kayode Fayemi, whom he accused of instigating members of the state legislature to impeach him.
“The majority of members of Assembly voted for me but a 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.
“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.” He said.
