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Osun New Governor, Ademola Adeleke, To Be Impeached

<h4>Osun New Governor<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that barely any &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;serious intervention from high level” the new governor of Osun State&comma; Senator Ademola Adeleke &comma; who was sworn into office as the 6th democratically elected governor of the agrarian State less than 48 hours ago&comma; may be impeached within the next 72 hours&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The All Progressives Congress&comma; APC controls majority in the House from the election held on March 9&comma; 2019&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The House has 26 seats&period; APC won 24 while the Peoples Democratic Party&comma;PDP&comma; which now controls the executive won only two&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Problems however started when after swearing in on Sunday&comma; November 27&comma; governor Ademola Adeleke decided to rename the state from &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;State of Osun” to Osun State&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also sacked about 1&comma; 200 workers and well as some traditional rulers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Adeleke reversed all appointments made by the immediate past governor&comma; Adegboyega Oyetola&comma; effective from July 7&comma; 2022&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He ordered that all government bank accounts be frozen&comma; adding that all actions of the Oyetola-led administration from July 17 will be revisited&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But this did not go down well with the Assembly members&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Assembly&comma; on Monday&comma; frowned on some of these decisions of the newly inaugurated governor&comma; arguing&comma; specifically&comma; that the anthem&comma; crest and flag of the state was an enactment of a law assented to on December 18&comma; 2012&comma; and no person can exact force to change it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a reaction to the governor’s decision&comma; the House&comma; through the Chairman&comma; House Committee on Media and Publicity&comma; Moshood Kunle Akande&comma; wrote a press statement dated Monday&comma; November 28&comma; 2022&comma; to dispel the action&comma; it partly read&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The State of Osun House of Assembly having reviewed the inaugural speech of the Governor and the activities of the inauguration hereby resolves as follows&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The usage of the State Anthem&comma; Crest and Flag is an enactment of the law and as such&comma; its usage is a matter of law and not choice&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The enactment &OpenCurlyQuote;State of Osun Anthem&comma; Crest and Flag Law&comma; 2012’ assented to on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">December 18&comma; 2012&comma; contained in Schedule 1&comma; II&comma; III&comma; IV and V&comma;<&sol;a> which carefully details every component of this law is not in ambiguity&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Schedule I is the State Anthem&comma; Schedule II has to do with the State Crest&comma; and Schedule III is the symbolic significance of the elements in the Flag&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lastly&comma; while we are aware of a court judgment in effect recognising &OpenCurlyQuote;Osun State’&comma; the Assembly&comma; pending the determination and exhaustion of all legal means would not be drawn into this matter&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The lawmakers further said that the state will continue to be described as the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;State of Osun” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ipinle Omulabi” &lpar;State of the Virtuous&rpar;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking exclusively to OpenLife Monday evening&comma; a Lagos based APC top member disclosed that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Impeachment of the governor has been settled&period; He played into our hands&period; We will not even wait for court to remove him&period; The House has been instructed to do the needful&comma;” he stated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Further&comma; the party stalwart stated that&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What may delay the impeachment is the provision in law that gives room for the governor to defend himself&period; That is a window of saviour for him to quickly net work for the necessary interventions&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Otherwise&comma; the State Assembly has been instructed to commence the process of impeachment against him and get rid of him within the next 24 hours&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But first&comma; notice of allegation&comma; about gross misconduct signed by two -third members of the house and presented to the speaker must be served on the governor&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Then the governor has a right to defend himself and there is time for that&period; That is part of the impeachment process&period; However&comma; though the impeachment cannot be challenged but the process leading to the impeachment can be challenged in court by the governor&period; That is the only window of delay&period; Adeleke may not survive the battle he has started except he retraces his steps&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;18470" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-18470" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-18470" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;ademola-adeleke-300x297&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Osun New Governor" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"297" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-18470" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><strong><em>Governor Ademola Adeleke<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;

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