
National Chairman of the defunct National Action Council (NAC), Dr Olapade Agoro has faulted the composition of impeachment panel by the Speaker of the State of Osun House of Assembly, Najeem Salaam to probe the governor of the state, Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola based on the petition written against him by a serving High Court Judge in the state, Folaranmi Oloyede.
Agoro in a protest letter personally addressed to the Speaker, which was copied to Akintunde Adegboye, the Chairman of the impeachment panel, a copy of which was made available to newsmen in Ibadan, described the step by the Speaker as pending to a "rabble rouser evil face petitioner."
Describing the judge's petition as unlawful and illegal, the politician said the ongoing strike by the judiciary in the state prevented him from approaching the law court, saying, "in the light of the fact that the Judiciary of Osun had been on strike the past months denying me the opportunity to challenge what I see and consider an act of Oloyede’s irresponsibility writing the obnoxious petition, this letter therefore becomes of imperative and a necessity if madness must be stemmed at its budding stage."
Agoro argued that under normal civil service procedures and judicial hierarchy the petition by the judge, (Folaranmi Oloyede) must have first and foremost been channelled through her supervising authorities before it could ever be made public.
He said that being a serving judge on the pay roll of the state, "she is a serving Judge operating under the supervisory authority of the Chief Judge of Osun State and the Permanent Secretary Osun State Ministry of Justice.
"If It behooves that if all these facts are carefully taken into consideration it will be discovered that Hon. Justice Folaranmi Oloyede’s petition is not only offensive to the Judicial and Civil Procedural rules, but a total abrasion to constituted authority.
"In the right sense of observing the rule of law and justice to guide our democracy, there is no way the Hon. Osun State House of Assembly should have ever allowed itself to be disturbed by a rabble rouser, evil face petitioner.
"My humble prayer before this Hon. Osun State House of Assembly is to throw the Hon. Justice Folaranmi Oloyede's obnoxious petition into the garbage bin of nuisance value", Agoro said.