The Parliament of the Obafemi Awolowo University Students’ Union has impeached the President of the Union, Oyekan Ibukun Edwards.
Highlights:
- He was impeached on Saturday, November 4 for gross misconduct, including his alleged involvement in the attack on students on Wednesday.
- The Secretary-General and Public Relations Officer of the Union, Boluwajaiye Adeoluwa and Okediji Simon were also suspended respectively for two weeks for not attending the parliamentary sitting.
- They were said to be viewing a television programme in the Awolowo Hall Common room, in the same building where the sitting was held.
- The Parliament also prohibited absent parliamentarians from attending two subsequent sittings.
- The sitting had in attendance 52 parliamentarians at which 37 voted for the impeachment of the Union’s President, while the remaining parliamentarians abstained from voting.
- With the resolution of the Parliament, the Union’s Speaker, Falayi Temitope, automatically assumes the position of the Presidency due to the vacancy of the office of the Union’s Vice-President.
- The erstwhile vice-president had been suspended by the management of the University.
