…wants a restraining order on House of Assembly ,Chief Judge .
The Deputy Governor of Ondo State,Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has approached an Akure High court to restrain the House of Assembly from removing him from office.
Aiyedatiwa in a suit filed on his behalf by Ebun- Olu Adegboruwa,SAN at the court on Monday, asked for an order of the court to stop the State Assembly from initiating, continuing or proceeding with the process of his removal from office.
The Ondo State government, the governor of the state, Ondo House of Assembly, the Speaker of the state house of assembly, the Clerk of the house and the Chief Judge of Ondo are named as defendants in the suit.
The deputy governor is also seeking an order to stop the chief judge of Ondo from accepting or acting upon any request from the House of Assembly to set up any panel to investigate any acts of gross misconduct against him.
Aiyedatiwa wants the court to declare that as the deputy governor of Ondo, he “is entitled to the rights and privileges attached to his office, including but not limited to his media details and other aides attached to his office”.
He said the dismissal of all the media aides and press crew attached to his office without prior notice “is unreasonable, vindictive, malicious, unconstitutional, illegal” and should be declared “null and void”.
The embattled deputy governor further sought “a declaration that as a democratically elected deputy governor of Ondo state in a joint ticket with the 2nd defendant (governor of the state), the claimant (Aiyedatiwa) is entitled to remain in office as such, freely exercise his rights and discharge his constitutional duties as deputy governor of Ondo state within the full time allocated to the office by the constitution, Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended)”.
“A declaration that the 3rd-5th defendants are not entitled to constitute themselves into investigators, prosecutors and judge over trumped-up allegations against the claimant in relation to his office, tenure and status as the deputy governor of Ondo state,”
“An order forthwith reinstating/restoring the full and total rights and privileges attached or accruing to the office of the Claimant as duly elected deputy governor of Ondo state which include, but not limited to the restoration of all media aides and press crew attached to the office of the claimant as deputy governor of Ondo state.”the court document reads.
