Amidst the state legislature’s decision to declare Governor Rotimi Akeredolu incompetent and request that his deputy, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, assume interim leadership, President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to meet with stakeholders in Ondo State.
Anaedoonline.ng is aware that Akeredolu’s departure from the state is the reason the legislators are acting in this manner.
Remember that in a letter to the legislature in May, Akeredolu declared that he was handing over authority to his deputy so that he could concentrate on his health.
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But when he wasn’t there, the acting governor and Akeredolu’s supporters couldn’t stand each other.
The governor moved to his home in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, as soon as he returned to Nigeria from his three-month medical leave in Germany. He hasn’t set foot in Ondo State since.
According to Akeredolu’s aides, the governor officially took over from his deputy on September 8, the day he returned from Germany, although there are obvious signs that government is operating automatically.
In light of the governor’s absence, legislators have chosen to convene in plenary to talk about and resolve the state’s current political predicament.
According to a source who talked with Daily Trust, the lawmakers are becoming embarrassed by the criticism they are receiving from many places on their lack of response to Akeredolu’s ongoing hold on power as they continue to care for his health.
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The source, who begged to remain anonymous, claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leadership’s intervention led the lawmakers to decide to hold a plenary session where the governor’s health would be discussed.
According to him, a few lawmakers have objected to Aiyedatiwa being named acting governor.
The source said, “The lawmakers would meet at the plenary and one of the agenda of the sitting is to declare Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the acting governor since Governor Akeredolu is not fit yet due to his health challenge.
“But some of the lawmakers may not be at the sitting because they are not in support of Aiyedatiwa becoming acting governor despite the intervention of the leadership of the APC in Abuja.”
In his remarks on the situation, Olatunji Oshati, the chairman of the House Committee on Information, stated that a meeting of legislators had been called to address the state’s present political impasse.
Oshati clarified that the assembly will release its resolution when it was appropriate, but she did not disclose the precise agenda for the scheduled meeting.
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He said, “The assembly will only sit and discuss the political situation in the state as already directed by the national leaders of the party.”
In order to discuss the ongoing dispute between Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa, President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to meet with important political figures in the state.
It was learned that Tinubu had called the meeting in Abuja as a result of the political unrest.
Major Ondo APC stakeholders and State Assembly members have been invited to the meeting at the president’s request, according to a source who discussed the meeting with reporters in Akure, the state capital.
The source said, “Tinubu would be meeting with the stakeholders and members of the APC in the state at the villa to resolve all these issues. The president is concerned by the report in the media and letters written to his office concerning the development in the state.
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“It is either he was hinting that the governor had not returned to the state since he arrived from Germany for his medical vacation or he had been following situations of things himself but it’s clear that he would be meeting the major actors in the state including the members of the state House of Assembly.”
According to Alex Kalejaye, the APC’s Ondo spokesman, he had been made aware of the meeting.
According to Kalejaye, all political squabbling in the state would stop if the president intervened in the current dispute.
He said, “I was supposed to meet with the state chairman of the party today but I have been told that he rushed out of the house. I’m sure it’s on this development.
“Don’t forget that I issued a statement yesterday on the political situation in the state and assuring the people that the faceoff is currently being addressed by the leadership of the party in the state and at the national level.
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“So, that statement was a saving grace for us as the presidency has decided to intervene in the matter. We quite sure that if Mr Tinubu had been around all this while, it wouldn’t take this long.”
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