The Chairman, Ikere Local Government Mr. Femi Ayodele has been suspended for sponsoring campaign posters canvassing for the state Governor,Kayode Fayemi to contest as a presidential candidate in 2023.
The Members of the state House of Assembly unanimously suspended the chairman during the plenary session presided over by the Speaker Funminiyi Afuye on Friday.
The presidential campaign poster which has the picture of the Governor and a message to support him for president in 2023 become subject of political debates and innuendos on different platforms.
Governor Kayode Fayemi had on Thursday through his Chief Press Secretary to Governor Fayemi, Yinka Oyebode, distanced himself from the posters.
According to Oyebode, Fayemi did not know anything about the posters. Oyebode, who said the sponsor was only expressing a mere personal opinion, urged the public to disregard the campaign posters.
But on Friday,the chairman who sponsored the poster was suspended by the state House of assembly.
The motion to suspend him was moved by the Majority Leader of the Assembly, Chief Gboyega Aribisogan and seconded by Mr Tajudeen Akingbolu, Ekiti West Constituency 1, APC.
The motion was entitled: “Calling for investigation into the alleged unsolicited and unauthorised campaign in the media in flagrant disregard to Extant Regulations by Chairman, Ikere Local Government Area, Mr. Femi Ayodele”.
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The lawmakers through a resolution unanimously suspended the council chairman, pending the completion of the assembly’s investigation on the matter.
The Assembly also committed the matter to its House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs for thorough investigation.
The speaker who hailed from the same council with Ayodele directed the ad-hoc committee to submit its report to the House within one week.
