A FEDERAL Hight Court, Ibadan, has stopped the State House of Assembly from impeaching embattled Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan.
Olaniyan had yesterday approached the court asking it to restrain the Assembly from going ahead with the impeachment plot initiated by the House following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The lawmakers had accused Olaniyan, among other things, of financial recklessness, gross misconduct, and insubordination.
While delivering judgment on the application filed by Olaniyan’s counsel, Chief Afolabi Fashanu (SAN), the presiding judge of the High Court, Justice Ladiran Akintola ruled that the lawmakers should maintain the status quo pending the hearing of the application for interlocutory injunction.
Justice Akintola, thereafter, adjourned the case until Tuesday, July 5, for hearing of the respondent’s reply.
