Juliet Buna
Members of the Ondo State House of Assembly will on Tuesday decide if deputy governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa should be declared acting governor over the continued absence of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.
The meeting comes after the peace meeting with President Tinubu in Abuja on Friday.
According to The PUNCH, a source in the Assembly said one of the major issues on the Assembly agenda for today’s plenary was to consider declaring Aiyedatiwa acting governor.
The source said, “The House plans to sit tomorrow (Tuesday) and Aiyedatiwa may be declared acting governor during the sitting. This is part of the outcome of the meeting with President Tinubu.”
When contacted on the matter, the Speaker of the House, Olamide Oladiji, said he was at a meeting.
“I will let you know whether the meeting will be held tomorrow because we are at a meeting now; after the meeting, I will let you know,” the Speaker stated.
As of the time of filing this report, there was no information from the Speaker.
It would be recalled that President Tinubu last Friday met with the leadership of the Assembly and the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ondo state in Abuja in a bid to resolve the long-drawn political crisis in the state.
The Assembly had, rising from the meeting with Tinubu, said it had dropped the move to impeach the deputy over alleged gross misconduct.
All parties in the Friday meeting were said to have resolved that the status quo should remain which means Akeredolu should remain the governor, Aiyedatiwa remains the deputy governor and that there should be no. impeachment.
