Ekiti State House of Assembly Monday elected a new speaker after the impeachment of Gboyega Aribisogan who spent only six days in office.
Seventeen members of the house voted to have him removed and suspended indefinitely for blocking the passage of the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill. In his place the chief whip, Olubunmi Adelugba from Emure Constituency was unanimously elected the new speaker at a plenary presided over by Deputy Speaker Hakeem Jamiu.
The oath of office and the oath of allegiance were subsequently administered to Mrs Adelugba, who became the first female speaker in the history of the Ekiti State House of Assembly since the return to democracy in 1999.
Six other lawmakers in the Assembly were also slammed with suspension for compromising the process of the election that produced Aribisogan as the speaker on November 15, among other alleged unpatriotic and unparliamentarily conducts capable of threatening the peace of the state.
Aribisogan and the six erring lawmakers were subsequently barred from the vicinity of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Complex within 1.5 km radius for their acts which, according to their colleagues, offend the provisions of the House Standing Rules and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
