* He should defend allegations against him – House
By John Odunjo
The Ondo State House of Assembly has denied witch-hunting the Deputy Governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, in its impeachment move against the state number two citizen.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Oshati Olatunji, who said that the state legislature was not witch-hunting the deputy governor, urged Ayedatiwa to defend himself from allegation of misconduct levelled against him.
Olatunji, who spoke during an interview on Channels TV, said, “He has to defend himself over the allegations.
“There are some allegations that border on emotions, we don’t want to take it up emotionally, which by the time we finish our investigations we will be able to explain better. There are many allegations and they border on misconduct.
“It is our duty that when you receive a petition, it is best thing for us to look into it. We have said it on several fora that we are not witch-hunting, we are just doing our job and our job is to investigate and by the time we finish the investigation the whole world will see. We are not after witch-hunting anybody; we are after sanitising the system.
“There are about five allegations with us here that border on misappropriation. Those are the allegations from the petition and it is left for him to defend himself. If he answers well, we are not after witch-hunting.
“The other one is about his intention to divide the executive when the governor was away and planning to impeach the governor which he at least needs to defend himself,” Olatunji said.
Since the Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu returned from medical vacation, there has been heat on the deputy governor, who had, in a statement, pledged loyalty to the governor, saying some forces were at work to create division among them
The governor has since sacked media aides attached to the office of the deputy governor and lately the impeachment move by the Assembly on the deputy governor.
