The 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Teslim Folarin has said that the impeachment plot of Deputy Governor Rauf Olaniyan by Governor Seyi Makinde and his induced lawmakers would fail because two-thirds of members required to carry out the process cannot be achieved.
Oyo State House of Assembly on Wednesday threatened to impeach the state Deputy Governor after levelling five allegations against him where about 24 lawmakers signed the petition, which was read during the plenary.
In the petition, entitled: “Petition and Notice of Allegations against the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, His Excellency, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan,” he was accused of gross misconduct, abuse of office, financial recklessness, abandonment of office and official duties, and insubordination.
Reacting to this, Folarin, representing Oyo Central senatorial district, in a statement issued on Saturday morning through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity – Com. YSO Olaniyi warned that the impeachment agenda will be resisted by conscientious lawmakers and the people of Oyo State that gave Engr. Olaniyan a 4-year mandate as deputy governor.
According to Folarin, “I wish to reiterate that His Excellency, Rauf Olaniyan’s position as the validly elected Deputy Governor of Oyo state is secured and constitutionally backed; his tenure ends on 29th of May 2023.
“The impeachment process initiated by Governor Makinde and the induced lawmakers can be best described as a coup d’etat, and will be duly resisted by the lawmakers who have not sold their consciences and the peace-loving people of Oyo State”
“I am certain that the governor cannot get the required number to impeach his deputy because some conscientious lawmakers are already dissociating themselves from the impeachment agenda. They refused to be bought over by the governor. I commend their boldness and integrity”
“I want to remind the involved lawmakers that switching political parties is not an impeachable offence. Therefore, they should be warned not to tow the path of self-destruction.
“It is visible to the blind and audible to the deaf that the charges brought against the Deputy Governor are frivolous. To this end, I strongly advise the induced lawmakers to refrain from taking any action that could throw Oyo State into a catastrophic political crisis and civil unrest,” the statement concluded.
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