Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Olamide Oladiji, says Deputy Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa is not ready for genuine reconciliation to warrant halting the impeachment saga between him and the state legislators.
Oladiji, who stated this in Akure, the state capital, at the weekend, said the embattled deputy governor was yet to withdraw the cases against the Assembly as earlier agreed during a meeting with the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress.
Aiyedatiwa had a few weeks ago approached the court to halt impeachment proceedings against him following allegations of gross misconduct levelled against him by the Assembly.
According to the Speaker, “The reconciliation process has to start with the deputy governor. He is the one who took us to court; we cannot reconcile ourselves when we have cases in court.
“Let him go to court and withdraw all these cases; then we would know that we are now in for genuine reconciliation.
“As far as the House of Assembly is concerned, we are not doing anything. The cases are in court and we would follow due process; we are following up on the cases in court.”
Oladiji described it as false insinuations that members of the Assembly are divided.
He said, “When there is a political tussle like this, there can be insinuations and rumours, but in the House of Assembly, we are together. We told ourselves that it is an institution, and the institution must be protected. So, we are together.”