Tinubu’s intervention in Ondo crisis ‘a mistake’ – Kayode Ajulo

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Kayode Ajulo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s role in the Ondo State leadership problem.

The SAN made his opinion clear on Arise Television on Monday.

Tinubu waded into the dispute on November 25 and implored competing factions to embrace peace and maintain the status quo, perhaps ending the state’s months-long political turmoil.

This came as the state’s Deputy Governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, committed to include all commissioners and officials in handling state business, and the state House of Assembly Speaker, Oladiji Olamide, voted to cease all impeachment processes against Aiyedatiwa.

Tinubu had met with the state officials, including members of the All Progressives Congress.

Aiyedatiwa who declared his decision to maintain the status quo and unite all the warring factions said, “I want to say that I pledge to all of you that I embrace every one of you. I put behind all that has happened before now. I’ve let go and also let God, just as the President has advised us.

“And I want to say that no offence, no guile in my mind whatsoever. All that has happened is politics. Impeachment is part of politics. If you survive it, it is also politics. It has come. I’ve survived it and every other thing in his past.

“It is one big family and our father has intervened to bring all the children together to remain under the same family and with the position that I occupy, I will carry every one of you along in every decision that needs to be taken and everything that we do we will work together; the executive and the legislature will work together to ensure that governance is on the right track.”

While faulting Tinubu’s intervention, Ajulo believed the President did not carry the Attorney General along.

“I say this with the fact that President Bola Tinubu today happens to have one of the best lawyers as the Attorney General, as a chief law officer that should advise him.

“This is someone I have high regard for.  I am very sure and I want to believe he is not being carried along to advise him properly,” he said.

He added, “The President has made a mistake. The President should have allowed the constitutional provisions to take its course. Ondo State people are sophisticated. The right thing needs to be done.”