The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr Olamide Oladiji, has said the failure of the state deputy governor, Mr Lucky Ayedatiwa, to withdraw cases in court showed the latter was not ready for genuine reconciliation.

The Assembly has begun the impeachment process against the deputy governor, but the process was stalled as the state Chief Judge, Justice Olusegun Odusola had not constituted a seven-man panel to investigate the gross misconduct allegation levelled against the deputy governor, despite the directive of the House.

The national leadership of the APC had set up a reconciliation committee led by a former governor of Katsina State, Bello Masari but the crisis is still unresolved.

Oladiji, who spoke in Akure, confirmed the intervention of the national leadership of the party, insisted that Aiyedatiwa needed to withdraw the cases in court before the reconciliation could take place.

According to him, during the reconciliation meeting (with the national leadership), the Assembly members and the deputy governor were asked to withdraw all cases in court.

He said, “We met the National Chairman of the APC, and he specifically asked me how we commence reconciliation. I told him that the reconciliation process had to start with the deputy governor. He is the one who took us to court, we cannot be reconciling ourselves when we have cases in court.

“Let him go to the court, withdraw all these cases, then we would know that we are now in for genuine reconciliation.

But the deputy governor has not done that as he has appealed some of the rulings of the lower court.

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