A group, Pro-Demo-cracy for Good Governance, has described the recent impeachment move of the Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Jumoke Akindele, by the lawmakers as a mockery of democracy.
The group said though the action had been reversed, it noted that it was a show of shame on the part of the legislative members who set aside the rules of the House by impeaching the Speaker in a private residence outside of the Assembly floor at an odd hour.
A statement signed by the group’s Co-ordinator, Akinwumi Bayode said “the puerile reasons of drunkenness and easy virtue given as excuse for her impeachment are at best laughable, as these could pass for a comedy.
“One would have expected honourable members of the Assembly to be intelligent enough to know that the Ondo State discerning public could not be easily fooled to believe that a woman so elected twice as Speaker, could be a woman of easy virtues and a drunkard.
The group said the legislative members, especially the ruling PDP members, should perhaps share part of her blame of lack of focus, transparency, incompetence, arrogance and poor leadership also levelled against her by electing her for a second term in office as speaker and for staying this long before discovering these traits.
The statement fingered Gov Olusegun Mimiko as the man behind the plot, alleging that the arrow-head of the 18 members that attended the secret meeting to impeach the speaker are his close allies.
It lamented the governor’s politics of divide and rule, describing it as ‘disheartening.’
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