The Fourth Republic has had one-too-many faceoffs between sitting governors and their deputies, with attendant distraction for the business of governance and development. With the ugly trend not abating, concerned stakeholders say it is high time the constitution assigned substantive role to deputies, beyond being ‘spare tyres’ of their ‘principals’, KEHINDE OLATUNJI reports.
Fear of impeachment proceedings against Ondo State deputy governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, is currently brewing. His boss, Rotimi Akeredolu is fingered as the ‘big masquerade’ rolling the proverbial drumbeats, to which the state lawmakers are dancing deftly.
