
Former Presidential candidate of the National Action Council (NAC), Dr Olaoade Agoro has faulted the composition of the committee set up by the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Najeem Salaam to look into the petition written against the State Governor, Raud Aregbesola by a serving High Court Judge in the state, Justice Folaranmi Oloyede.
In a protest letter personally addressed to the Speaker, which was copied to Akintunde Adegboye, the Chairman of the committee and made available to reporters in Ibadan, Agoro, who is the National Chairman of National Action Council (NAC) 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 clergy 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 has 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 in the letter that under normal civil service procedures and Judicial hierarchy the petition by the judge, (Folaranmi Oloyede) must have first and foremost been channeled 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. Justice.
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