Hakeem Jamiu v. Gboyega Aribisogan
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You Planned to Impeach Former Speaker Before His Death – Dep Speaker to Aribisogan
You’re a boot Licker, Pathological Liar – Aribisogan Fires back
Far from being resolved the crisis in Ekiti State House of Assembly rages on as two dramatist personae in the House, impeached Speaker, Gboyega Aribisogan and the Deputy Speaker, Hakeem Jamiu are daggers drawn as to the event leader to the brouhaha in Assembly.
The Deputy Speaker fired the first salvo few days ago in an interview where he accused the controversially impeached Speaker, Aribisogan of being over-ambitious claiming that that has always been the cause of his ordeal in his first second term in the House of Assembly.
In swift response, Aribisogan described Jamiu as a man of “perverse character, a liar and sycophantic lapdog”
In an online news (fountainnewsbreaker.ng), Jamiu said that it had always been Aribisogan’s ambition to become Speaker since the regime of former governor Fayose, which led to his suspension by the fifth assembly.
Jamiu said that while it is normal to have such ambition, it should be done in the proper way adding,” there is nothing bad in that but the way he went about it is ruthless and heartless.”
Speaking further, the deputy speaker said that Aribisogan as leader of government business recruited few honourable members to start planning the impeachment of the late Speaker , Funminiyi Afuye and him, the deputy as far back as March this year.
”The reasons he gave was that it was the turn of Northern Senatorial district to produce the Speaker; late Afuye is from the southern senatorial district. So if Afuye had not died, Aribisogan would have attempted to impeach him and myself and change the entire leadership as later events turned out to be”.
The deputy speaker recalled that Aribisogan had earlier been suspended by the fifth assembly during governor Fayose’s regime for the same allegation of trying to impeach the Speaker and the governor.
“He was suspended for about two years before he was rehabilitated by then governor Fayemi who admitted him from People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to All Progressives Peoples Congress, APC, gave him a return ticket and made him the leader of government business”.
Still on the impropriety of Aribisogan, he said that the tenure of present assembly inaugurated by Fayemi on June 6, 2019 expired on June 5, 2023, adding that it’s the turn of the South that was truncated by the death of late Speaker Afuye who died on October 19, 2022.
Jamiu said that the zoning arrangement is very sacrosanct in Ekiti adding that the three principal positions of governor, deputy and speaker are zoned into the three senatorial districts.
Asked whether it was right to have removed Aribisogan, he replied in the affirmative saying that his emergence was done through a “heavily compromised process”.
He said on investigation it was discovered through an ad-hoc committee set up by the house to investigate events leading to the rancour after his “purported victory” that Aribisogan and others that elected him compromised that election”.
However, Aribisogan whose impeachment is shrewd in controversy, in a counter reaction said;
RE: HAKEEM JAMIU’S TISSUE OF LIES.
It is rather unfortunate that the Deputy Speaker Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Hakeem Jamiu decided to expose himself as a man of perverse character. Every reasonable person knows that Hakeem as usual, is only trying to massage the bruised ego of his master. If all he said about me in the interview was true, why did he wait till now before making it public. The world knows where I stand on the violation of the rule of law which took place in the Hallowed Chamber of Ekiti state House of Assembly on November 21, 2022.
I won’t allow anyone to distract me or turn the issue at stake to a personal fight. Rt. Hon Hakeem Jamiu and his retinue of ignoramus have tried unsuccessfully to cover up the heinous crime they committed against Ekiti people.
The whole world knows that Hakeem Jamiu was one of the ring leaders who perpetrated the legislative coup de tat that put Ekiti state in a constitutional crises.
Rather than for him and his sponsors to engage themselves in soul searching and seek for forgiveness and redemption, he has resorted into name calling and personal attack.
I have decided to refrain from talking about him and his evil deeds for now because of the matter at hand .
At the appropriate time, the world will know more about Hakeem Jamiu, the overtly sycophantic lapdog, boot licker and irrational hypocrite and damage he and his band of court jesters, masquerading as democrats have done to Ekiti state.
