Embattled Ekiti speaker sues Fayose, House

The impeached Speaker of the Ekiti State House of
Assembly, Adewale Omirin, has asked a Federal High
Court in Lagos to restrain the Assembly from further
carrying on with any form of legislative function.
Omirin and his impeached Deputy, Adetunji Orisalade,
prayed the court to restrain legislative activities in the
Ekiti Assembly pending when a suit they filed in
opposition to their impeachment would be resolved.
The two were on November 20, 2014 impeached on the
floor of the House by seven members of the House
belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The other plaintiffs in the motion filed before Justice
Saliu Saidu are the 17 All Progressives Congress
members of the Ekiti House.
The defendants, 14 in number, include the Ekiti State
Governor, Ayodele Fayose (8th respondent), the current
Speaker of the House (1st defendant), his Deputy,
Olayinka Abeni (7th defendant), the Inspector-General
of Police, Suleiman Abba and the Department of State
Services.
Also joined as defendants are the three commissioners
cleared by the House under Olugbemi, namely, Oweseni
Ajayi (Attorney-General), Kayode Eso (Commissioner
for Works) and Toyin Ojo (Commissioner for Finance).
Other defendants are members of the House loyal to
Olugbemi, namely Samuel Ajibola, Adeojo Alexander,
Adeloye Adeyinka, Isreal Ajiboye, Fatunbi Olajide and
the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti.
In the application, Omirin and others asked Justice
Saidu to make an order of interim injunction restraining
Olugbemi and Abeni from parading themselves or acting as
the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, respectively, of the
House.
Among others prayers they also asked the court to restrain
Fayose and his agents “from generally interfering in any
manner with the legislative functions of the plaintiffs and
particularly from recognising, dealing, associating or
relating with or assigning duties or responsibilities that
would validate the illegal assumption of duties of the 12th,
13th and 14th defendants as competent commissioners of
Ekiti State Government.”