Tinubu Asked Aiyedatiwa To Sign Undated Resignation Letter – Ondo Commissioner withdraw the appeal.
According to the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, President Bola Tinubu, in his involvement in the state’s political turmoil, requested a signed resignation letter from the state’s Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. After a months-long political deadlock with the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, Aiyedatiwa presided over the state’s executive council meeting on Thursday.
Tinubu convened the executive council meeting after summoning warring factions loyal to Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa to resolve the state’s political issue. Tinubu’s involvement meant that Akeredolu stayed governor and Aiyedatiwa remained deputy governor, according to the Presidency.
However, Ademola-Olateju, stated that the President later requested a signed undated resignation from the deputy governor in case anything untoward occurred. “First and foremost, before I even speak about the Abuja meeting, I want to thank the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for being a very good leader in the midst of the Ondo State crisis.”
“We thank him for intervening to cool the temperature that was just going haywire in Ondo State.”Mr President, the leader of our party, the All Progressives Congress, made crucial choices at the Abuja meeting.
The important decisions were to retain the state’s status quo. He decided that the executive council would not be dissolved under any circumstances, that the party structure would be maintained, and that the leadership of the House of Assembly would remain intact, and he nominated three people to be enforcers and to prevent further problems: the Secretary to the State Government, the party chairman, and the speaker of the house.
“He asked for the signed resignation letter of Honourable Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Deputy Governor undated in case anything untoward happens, so that is what I know,” the commissioner went on to say.
The Ondo State House of Assembly and its Speaker also abandoned an appeal filed before the Court of Appeal in Abuja against a verdict by the Federal High Court in Abuja that halted Aiyedatiwa’s planned impeachment.
The House of Assembly and its Speaker had disputed the Federal High Court in Abuja’s jurisdiction to hear the case and had appealed the court’s judgement suspending the planned impeachment of the deputy governor.
Remi Olatobura, counsel for the Speaker and the Assembly, informed the three-member panel of appellate court justices on Thursday that he has received instructions from his clients to withdraw the case.
The senior lawyer informed the court that the parties in the case had reached a political settlement and had agreed to drop their appeal. According to Olatubora, the appeal is being withdrawn in the interests of peace and as part of the parties’ agreement.
Respondents in the appeal verified that they were issued with the notice of withdrawal and stated that they did not object to it. Justice Haruna Tsammani, who presided over the three-member panel, later dismissed the appeal, which had been withdrawn by the appellants.