Appeal court docket reverses impeachment of former deputy governor of Ondo

The court appeal of enchantment sitting in Akure, the day past, reversed the impeachment of Alhaji Ali Olanusi, former deputy governor of Ondo country.Olanusi became impeached via the country house of meeting on April 27, 2015 when he dumped the Labour birthday party (LP) on which he become elected for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

according to the information enterprise of Nigeria (NAN), the presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Danjuma, held that Olanusi’s impeachment become not finished according with the provisions of the law.

He also held that the former deputy governor became not accorded honest hearing before he become impeached.Justice Danjuma, consequently, ordered the recovery of the rights and blessings due to the previous deputy governor from the time of his removal from workplace to the length his tenure elapsed.

A Federal High Court in Lagos had on August13, final yr struck out a essential rights enforcement suit filed with the aid of Olanusi to project his impeachment.Justice Mohammed Idris, in his judgment, had held that Olanusi’s in shape changed into an abuse of court docket tactics.

Justice Idris stated the reliefs being sought were the same with those in the sooner match, marked AK/51/2015, still pending earlier than an Ondo nation high courtroom in Akure.