Members of the Ondo State House of Assembly will meet today (Tuesday) to discuss the affairs of the state.
This is coming on the heels of a peace meeting they had with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja on Friday.
A source in the Assembly told the Punch that one of the major issues on the Assembly agenda for today’s plenary was the consideration of whether or not to declare the state deputy governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, as the acting governor following the long absence of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.
The source said, “The House plans to sit tomorrow (Tuesday) and Aiyedatiwa may be declared acting governor during the sitting. This is part of the outcome of the meeting with President Tinubu.”
When contacted on the matter, the Speaker of the House, Olamide Oladiji, said he was at a meeting.
“I will let you know whether the meeting will be held tomorrow because we are at a meeting now; after the meeting, I will let you know,” the Speaker stated.
The meeting with the president appeared to put paid to the move to impeach the deputy governor over alleged gross misconduct.
Sources said Aiyedatiwa also agreed to put behind him the events of the past and carry all the stakeholders along.
The crisis between Akeredolu and his deputy began after the governor returned to the country from his long medical vacation in Germany.
The move by the Assembly to impeach the deputy governor had divided the lawmakers.
All parties in the Friday meeting were said to have resolved that the status quo should remain which means Akeredolu should remain the governor, Aiyedatiwa remains the deputy governor and that there should be no. impeachment.
