Wale Adedayo, the chairman of Ogun State’s Ijebu East Local Government Area, has been placed on suspension for three months after he was accused of maladministration and financial mismanagement by members of the council parliament.
The suspension was approved by seven of the eleven members of the parliament who make up the local government legislative council due to a number of claims and the need for an investigation into the suspected misbehaviour.
However, the council legislature has ordered him to show up at its upcoming meeting on September 14, 2023.
The suspended chairman was subjected to fifteen allegations, and he will likely respond to them.
The suspended chairman was accused by the councillors of taking N4 million out of the local account for empowerment in 2022, which never happened. They also charged him with wasting N2 million on August 20, 2022, on Isese Day.
The action was taken after the suspended chairman accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting local government monies a few days prior. The following day, he joined other local government chairmen in apologizing to the governor for their actions.
He had previously asserted that armed police officers had broken into the Ogbere neighbourhood as part of an impeachment conspiracy.
“Invading the peaceful Ogbere community with mobile policemen in order to impeach Wale Adedayo is desperation,” he said.
“As I told the SSG yesterday, we took an oath with our fathers that we’ll make this land better than we met it. You can kill the body, but not the spirit of Wale Adedayo.”
