The crisis between local government councils and state governor reached its head on Thursday as Honourable Wale Adedayo,the Chairman of Ijebu East local government was impeached by five out of eleven councilors that made up the council.
Before now he has been on suspension as a result of the fall out of the crisis of confidence between him and Governor Dapo Abiodun over a letter he write to former governor Olusegun Osoba accusing Governor Abiodun of diverting council funds .
While the remaining nineteen local government chairmen went to apologise to the governor who denied the allegation,Adedayo was later suspended by the council and also quizzed by the Department of State Services,DSS.
Adedayo’s impeachment was announced in a statement issued by the Leader of the House, Hon. Fasheyi Akindele, in a statement obtained by News Contact Online, shortly after Adedayo honoured the invitation of the lawmakers.
Adedayo was impeached on allegation over funds diversion and mismanagement.
The statement reads partly “The councillors of ijebu East Local Government of Ogun State, earlier today, impeached the suspended Chairman of the local government, Hon. Wale Adedayo, over allegations of financial misappropriation and diversion of council funds, among other allegations made against him.
“After series of invitations by the House, which were ignored in the past, Adedayo eventually appeared before the legislative council today as the councillors continued their probe of the chairman.
“The suspended Chairman owned-up before the full house of 11 councilors that he diverted Federal allocations sent to the Council by the State Government and used them for purposes other than what the State Government approved.
“Adedayo also agreed that he spent the Council funds till August 2023, even when the budget was yet to be approved, whereas the laws only allows him to spend till March 2023.
” Adedayo also opened-up that he used N5.2 million to produce 20 pieces of chairs and tables instead of the 290 chairs that the money was meant for as approved by the state government.
“On the issue of illegal levies and strikers to commercial transport operators in the Local government, Adedayo said he thought the House had passed the Bill to that effect, but the Leader of House reminded him that a bill, if passed by the the House, would have been jointly signed by the Leader of the House and the Council Chairman.
“That the chairman has run foul of the laws of the land, specifically the Ogun State Local Government Laws 2006 and committed serious impeachable offences was therefore established.
After about three hours deliberation, the impeachment of the Chairman was put to votes. Five councilors voted for his impeachment, four voted against, with one abstention
“Therefore, the Leader of the House pronounced Mr. Wale Adedayo impeached as the Chairman of Ijebu East LG.”
