Olubunmi Adelugba has now been elected as the new speaker.

Seventeen out of the 25 members impeached the Speaker and elected a new one.

The Assembly Complex had been sealed as members were embroiled in a controversy following the death of the former speaker, Funminiyi Afuye.

66-year-old Afuye died at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital on October 19 after suffering cardiac arrest.

A month after his demise, the parliament held an election, and Aribisogan, who is the representative of Ikole 1 Constituency in the Assembly and a two-term lawmaker, emerged.

Aribisogan had accused the immediate past governor of the state, Kayode Fayemi of working with members of the state legislature to impeach him.

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Rt. Hon Afuye died Wednesday evening at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Ado- Ekiti, where he was receiving treatment after suffering a cardiac arrest.

The late Afuye, 66, was a former Commissioner, Ekiti State Ministry of Information and two- time member of the State Assembly. He was inaugurated Speaker of the sixth Assembly on June 6, 2019.

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This is coming hours after he was sworn in as the state governor at the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State on Sunday.

Aside from freezing the account, Oyebanji also makes his first two appointments. He retained Yinka Oyebode as his Chief Press Secretary.

Oyebode was the CPS to the immediate past governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, during his first and second terms.

The governor has also appointed, Dr Habibat Adubiaro, as the Secretary to the State Government.

The CPS said, “All accounting officers and financial institutions are urged to comply with this directive”

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Adebayo was arrested for allegedly publishing a story exposing the fraudulent activities of a House of Representatives candidate for Ekiti North Federal Constituency (II) on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, Akinlayo Davidson Kolawole.

The journalist was said to have been arrested on Friday in Abuja by a team of armed policemen over the publication of a story about how Kolawole allegedly swindled an oil magnate, Johnson Akinnawonu, who is also a director in JAAC Nig. Ltd. to the tune of N3 billion.

Upon his arrest, Adebayo was taken to Wuse Zone 3 police station where he was detained and later handed over to another team of policemen who came from Alagbon in Lagos.

Ayodeji was also threatened and forced to pull down the story from the site before his arrest.

SaharaReporters gathered that Akinlayo, a 45-year-old Akure-based real estate agent and his lawyer, one Rotimi Olorunfemi, the chairman of the Akure branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) allegedly defrauded a Port Harcourt-based oil magnate, Akinnawonu and JAAC Nig. Ltd to the tune of 3 billion on the pretext of helping him to acquire a property in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja but failed to deliver.

A petition dated March 15, 2022, addressed to the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by Johnson’s lawyer, Barr. Adejumola Ajayi and obtained by SaharaReporters is titled “Criminal Conversion and Obtaining of N1.9billion Under False Pretence.”

The petition read in part, “That sometime between 2013 and 2015 the duo of Messrs. Akinlayo Davidson Kolawole and Rotimi Olorunfemi (a purported estate Manager and his Solicitor) with their office address at Akure made representation to our clients to procure some real estate property for them at Abuja and Lagos.

“Property tagged Tantalizer building at Aminu Kano Crescent, off Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent Wuse 11 Abuja.

“Property tagged multiple three (3) storey building of former Federal government guest houses covering about 10,000 Square metres of land at Ahmadu Bello Way in Lagos.

“Property formerly occupied by NEPA at Kings Way Road Lagos on about 4000 square metres of land which sales obtained from our clients amounted to N1,860,000,000 (One billion, Eight Hundred and Sixty Million Naira).

“That within same period Akinlayo Davidson Kolawole obtained an additional sum of N46,000,000 (Forty-Six Million Naira) from our clients to convert their Opebi residential building to commercial building and as well collected rent of N10,400,000 (Ten Million and Four Hundred Thousand Naira) rent from our client’s tenants occupying their property at Plot 176 Herbert Macauley Road without performance and account.”

It was also gathered that Akinnawonu, who doubles as a director in JAAC Nig. Ltd. is now in critical health condition and has been flown to Canada following the shock and trauma he had suffered.

Findings by SaharaReporters revealed that Olorunfemi has since confessed to the crime while Kolawole through his lawyer had agreed in a letter addressed to Akinnawonu to refund the sum of N830, 000, 000 (Eight Hundred and Thirty Million Naira) before June 30, 2022.

But Akinlayo refused to honour the agreement and pay up and has since then evaded arrest by the EFCC and the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCID), Alagbon, Lagos who have since launched a manhunt for him.

As of the time of filing this report, the blogger is still languishing in detention at Alagbon in Lagos and has not been granted access to his lawyer or family.

Efforts to reach Akinlayo for a reaction to the allegations were unsuccessful.

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Biodun Oyebanji is a former secretary to the state government (SSG), Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

Oyabanji won 15 out of the 16 LGAs in the State.

He garnered a total of 187,057 votes to defeat his two closest challengers; Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who got 82,211 votes and Bisi Kolawole of the People’s Democratic Party who secured 67,457 votes.

Professor Kayode Oyebode, returning officer for the election, declared Oyebanji the winner in the early hours of Sunday. A total of 16 candidates participated in the election. The total valid votes in the election were 351,865, void votes, 8,888 and total votes cast, 360,753.

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The governor disclosed this via his official Twitter handle.

Mr Fayemi said,“I am proud of Mr Adeoye as a principled Ekiti man and I salute his courage in helping us keep Ekiti safe. #covid19 #covid19Ekiti”. 

According to the governor, Mr Adeoye will help to propagate the message as a member of the COVID-19 Task Force in Ekiti State.

LIVE: Governor Kayode Fayemi @kfayemi receives Mr. Adeoye, the Ekiti man in the trending "Father rejects son" video at the Governor’s office, Ado Ekiti.@ekiti_covid19 @ogundamisi @toluogunlesi https://t.co/GHlRijMSUv

— Government of Ekiti State (@ekitistategov) April 30, 2020

Mr Adeoye caught the eyes of the Ekiti state government after a video of him rejecting his son went viral.

In the video which was recorded four days ago by one of the security men attached to Fajuyi Pavilion, where the Ekiti State Enforcement Task force uses as its base for coordination of daily operations, a certain Mr Femi Adeoye refused to cover-up for his son who travelled from Lagos to Ekiti even after his father had advised against embarking on the journey.

Mr Adeoye stated in the video that he had told his son not travel so he does not expose himself to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the young man disregarded his father’s words and embarked on the rather treacherous journey.

Mr Adeoye said he had reported that his son was journeying from Lagos and stressed that he would not take the young man home because his house had no space where his son could isolate himself.

He urged the authorities to take charge and keep his son under close observation, lest he leaves the state in jeopardy.

The rather disappointed father having made his case, left his son with the security personnel who was making a mockery of him, urging Mr Adeoye to go home with his son, claiming that the son has been tested and certified free of COVID-19.

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