An Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan on Tuesday has dismissed the appeal filed by the former Oyo State Deputy Governor, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan, challenging his impeachment on July 18, 2022.
Olaniyan was removed from office over allegations of gross misconduct and financial impropriety.
The seven-member panel, led by Justice Christopher Kayode, upheld the impeachment, finding Olaniyan guilty of the allegations.
Olaniyan, through his lawyer Chief Afolabi Fasanu, SAN, initially filed a suit before Justice Bayo Taiwo of an Oyo State High Court, seeking to nullify the impeachment.
But the lower court, on September 1, 2022, declared the impeachment constitutional and in order.
Olaniyan, thereafter filed an appeal marked CA/IB/136/2023, asking it to upturn the decision of the High Court and declare his impeachment illegal and unconstitutional.
In their judgment read by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, which was adopted by Justices Yargata Nimpar and B. F. Suberu, the three-man panel of judges agreed with the decision of the trial court that the procedure for the removal of Mr Olaniyan as former Deputy Governor of Oyo state, “is primarily the internal affairs of the Oyo State House of Assembly
