The arraignment of the Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Bamidele Oleyelogun, before the State High Court sitting at the Olokuta Correctional centre, Akure, over alleged financial misconduct, suffers set back.
Oleyelogun is to be arraign alongside the Clerk of the house, Bode Adeyelu; the lawmaker representing Akoko South West I in the House, Felemu Bankole and two other staff.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had instituted the charges against the defendants following petition from the sacked Deputy Speaker, Mr. Iroju Ogundeji.
Mr. Ogundeji had petitioned the Commission asking the agency to investigate the fund allegedly collected and shared by the speaker and others for a phoney seminar in Lagos.
The sacked Deputy Speaker had accused the speaker and other principal officers of collecting and sharing N2.4 million meant for a seminar in Lagos which they never attended in 2019.
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Their trial was however stalled following the absence of the lawyer to the EFCC, Mr. Didanj Fredrick
Mr. Frederick, however, said the anti-graft commission did not get the hearing notice until late in the evening of Monday.
The Speaker arrived at the court at about 8:30 am in a tinted Black Prado SUV with a pilot vehicle and another Gold Kia SUV with number plate 95 ODHA.
Meanwhile, journalists were not allowed to cover the court proceedings because the court is located inside the Correctional centre.
The prison officials led by the Squadron Commander, Mr Ibrahim Ogunja, who turned journalists back, said he was acting on an order from Abuja which placed all correctional centres on red alert to forestall jailbreak.
