The Ondo State House of Assembly on Tuesday issued an impeachment notice against the Deputy Governor of the state, Alhaji Ali Olanusi.

The seven-count notice of impeachment issued against Olanusi was endorsed by 20 out of the 26 lawmakers in the House.

The legislators said the notice was pursuant to Section 188 of the Constitution.

The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Jumoke Akindele, directed that the notice should be served personally on the deputy governor through his office or pasted at his residence or advertised in a national daily.

Offences the lawmakers are levelling against Olanusi range from gross misconduct to financial misappropriation and absence from official duties.

The House also alleged that the deputy governor engaged in activities that resulted in political disaffection within the Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s cabinet.

The impeachment move against Olanusi came barely three weeks after he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, few hours to the March 28 presidential election.

The lawmakers said Olanusi acted “to undermine the office of the governor by causing political disaffection and deliberately working at cross purposes with the governor and the executive council of the state with a view to destabilising the state government.”

They accused Olanusi of truancy and absenteeism, saying the deputy governor shunned official engagements without lawful or official authorisation on April 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 20, 2015.

The House also recalled that “on or about Wednesday April 15, 2015, Olanusi caused his security aides to shoot indiscriminately at peaceful protesters along Fiwasaiye/Oba Adesida Road in Akure, thus creating panic, breakdown of law and order, and general sense of insecurity within the state under the pretext that the said protesters disrupted his convoy.”

The lawmakers said the act was unbecoming of the holder of the high office of the deputy governor.

Olanusi was also accused of collecting, at different dates, various sums of money “for the purpose of travelling and as medical bill as follows: 2009 (N8,175,410); 2010 (N8,952,600), 2013 (N10,833,200) and 2014 (N11,328,100), when in actual fact, the said Alhaji Ali Olanusi did not travel on the said specified dates or did not travel at all and, or, did not expend the approved medical bills as appropriate, thereby unlawfully enriching himself and/or causing loss to the state government.”

The impeachment proceeding against the deputy governor commenced on Tuesday with the Majority Leader of the House, Ifedayo Akinsoyinu, moving a motion that impeachment notice be served on Olanusi.

The motion was seconded by a member of the House representing Akoko North West 2, Adeyinka Banso.

Addressing newsmen after the Tuesday sitting, Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Kunle Olujuyigbe, assured that the House would follow due process and allow the deputy governor to respond to all the allegations against him.

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Lalasticlala Seun FP..... Mimiko didn't acquire the name Iroko overnight.... Alli Olanusi about to findout!

Omenka mynd44 etal

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With a House controlled by the PDP, it might be very difficult for the gentleman to survive this. Let him accept his fate, who knows, perhaps an even greater national assignment awaits him outside the state government house.

omenka:
With a House controlled by the PDP, it might be very difficult for the gentleman to survive this. Let him accept his fate, who knows, perhaps an even greater national assignment await him outside the state government house.

Well if he's given any assignment by the APC he's not going to make any difference... The man is a political recluse!

He deserves to be drown.

How could he have betrayed his boss a few days before elections.

We will certainly make jumping parties, the very platform you were elevated, a criminal offence.

Nonsense.

He even granted a interview where he declared that he dumped PDP to spite his boss! What was he thinking?

If it's fayose's case they would be here tearing the whole thread apart.... mtcheeew bitter losers. He's got nothing to lose in my opinion, impeaching him 5weeks to the end of his tenure?? kokan aiye

efilefun:
If it's fayose's case they would be here tearing the whole thread apart.... mtcheeew bitter losers. He's got nothing to lose in my opinion, impeaching him 5weeks to the end of his tenure?? kokan aiye

No he still has close to a year left!

I don't see him surviving this, some of our politicians need to be thought the loyalty lesson, you don't decamp a day to presidential elections and expect to go free...

BTW are the law makers just waking up Since he committed some sought of crime between 2009 - 2014, why is that its after is defection to the opposition they eventually found their voice to say anything about it...

This is tantamount to political witch hunt, well I wish Olanusi Goddluck...

Lalasticlala

In fayose case they will say mischief lawmakers want to upturn the will of the people but here , they will say it serves him right ,am sure most of you wont say the same about the deputy governor of Rivers state.

gone with the winds