Oyo state House of Assembly on Monday morning impeached the state deputy governor, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan, from office.
The lawmakers impeached the deputy governor after adopting the report of the seven-man committee set up by the Chief Judge of the state to investigate the impeachable offences levelled against him by the state House of Assembly.
Olaniyan was removed by members of the House of Assembly on Monday.
The report of the panel set up to investigate him was read by the Majority Leader of the House, Sanjo Adedoyin, from Ogbomoso.
The deputy governor was found culpable and indicted of all allegations and complaints levelled against him.
The Assembly approved Olaniyan’s removal from office leaning on section 188 (9) of the 1999 constitution (as amended).
Olaniyan was elected in 2019 on a joint ticket with the incumbent Governor Seyi Makinde on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party but recently defected to the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress in the state.
