A member of the House of Representatives in the seventh assembly representing Ife Federal Constituency of Osun State, Hon. Rotimi Makinde has faulted the process through which the Osun State House of Assembly handled the petition sent to it by Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, calling for the impeachment of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
Oloyede, a serving judge in the Osun State judiciary recently petitioned the state assembly to impeach Governor Aregbesola and his deputy, Mrs. Titilayo Olaoye-Tomori, for alleged financial recklessness.
Makinde, who served as the vice chairman of the house committee on human rights, stated in statement issued in Lagos that the decision of the assembly to set up a seven-man ad hoc committee to investigate the petition is faulty and unparliamentarily in nature.
He said: “It is morally wrong for the house to entertain that petition. Are we saying that anybody can just pick their paper and send petition to the house and the assembly will just constitute a panel and it will continue like that? I feel uncomfortable that the house entertained that petition in the first instance. Is it because is coming from a judge or what?
“They are laying a very bad precedence because before you put a petition before a legislative house, you have to pass through the members whose job is to read it on the floor and the speaker will refer it to the appropriate committee of the house who will in turn make investigations on it. But first, it must be read in the floor and presented.
“This is just a write-up directed to the house and being given undue publicity than to warrant setting up of such committee. It is a waste of time and laying of a bad precedence. The mode of the operation of the house raised doubts and I think if they continue like this, they may not have time to do any other legislative duties.
“They ought to have ignore such because it is an unnecessary alarm. The petitioner is not fit to be on the bench because she is part of government. We categorise judges as next to God and for her to position her herself to do such job is curious, she should have follow the path of honor by resigning,” he said.
Concluding, Hon Makinde said "I hereby issue 21 days ultimatum to the Justice to substantiate her claim or risk been sue to a law court".
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