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Governor Rauf Aregbesola says Justice Folahnmi Oloyede, a judge in Osun State, who wrote a petition against him and his deputy, accusing them of financial recklessness, is not fit to hold her exalted position as a judge
GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, on Sunday, August 9, declared that Justice Folahanmi Oloyeded, the judge who wrote a petition against him and Tilayo Laoey-Tomori, his deputy, was not fit to be on the bench.
Aregbesola who was reacting to the dismissal of the petition by the House of Assembly, lashed out at the judge for what he described as a conduct unbecoming of judges.
Speaking at the 50th birthday ceremony of Najeem Salaam, speaker of the House of Assembly, the governor said: “I want to say that there was no basis for the petition. It’s all lies. A judge who doesn’t know herself as a judge… Judges can only be seen and not heard. She (Oloyede) doesn’t have any substance in the judiciary. She lied against me. The journalists should have checked the financial statement of the allocation before writing their stories.
“If I had collected N538 billion, Osun would have turned to Dubai. I am happy Buhari went to the USA and it was said that one million barrels of crude oil was being stolen every day.”
Aregbesola alleged that Oloyede accused him of being absent from the state, but the weekly executive meeting register proved otherwise. “I have never gone on leave since November 2010 when I came into government. There is no single truth in the judge’s petition.
“I will tell the side of my story bit by bit. I am confident that before the end of the month the period of hard time will smoke off in the state,”
Aregbesola is known for dancing, did not do so at the occasion. He jokingly told the social gathering that “a debtor doesn’t deserve to dance.”
Rather than taking to the dancing floor as the gathering had expected, the governor took the microphone to clear the air on the allegations of misappropriation of the state resources levelled against him and his deputy. “Debt is a bad thing and I’m being careful with what I do because of the fact that I owe Osun workers. But you will hear a lot from me once I pay the outstanding salaries of our workers between August and September. Then that time I can dance,” he said.
Oloyede had accused the Aregbesola and Laoye-Tomori in a petition to the House of Assembly of mismanaging the state’s resources and thereby plunging it into financial chaos. Bu when asked to appear before the panel constituted by the House to investigate the matter to substantiate her allegations, she refused but sent a lawyer instead.
The House subsequently dismissed the petition after the panel reported that the judge failed to honour its invitation and couldn’t also proof her allegations.
— Aug 10, 2015 @ 12:00 GMT
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