By AKEEB ALARAPE, Ibadan
Friday, July 28, 2006

Daily Sun investigations showed that the lawmakers were alleged to have crossed the path of Adedibu with the re-instatement of two council chairmen earlier suspended by the House.

It was learnt that the two chairmen, Hons. Amos Oladejo and Nafiu Bamiji of Lagelu and Atisbo Local Government Areas, have also been barred from entering their offices.

It would be recalled that Chairmen of Saki-West, Ido, Lagelu and Atisbo Local Government areas were suspended on July 4 for disobeying the order of the House. Messrs Nureni Adisa and Basiru Lawal, Ido and Saki-West, respectively were later removed by the House for alleged financial misconduct.

But last Tuesday, both chairmen of Lagelu and Atisbo, were cleared and reinstated by the House.
The action of the lawmakers was said to have drawn the ire of Adedibu, who, sources said, threatened to deal with the lawmakers. The old politician was said to have queried the legislators on why they dabbled into the matter.

The threat, according to Daily Sun sources, was not taken lightly by the lawmakers, who hurriedly went into hiding Wednesday afternoon, a development that led to the cancellation of the House sitting slated for the day.

None of the lawmakers was seen at the House yesterday until around 1.30p.m, when about six of them came in a convoy of cars to attend a book launch in honour of one of their colleagues, slated for the House of Chiefs. Nonetheless, security was tight at the venue of the launch.

Efforts to get the Spokesman of the House, Hon. Muhammed Inakoju, to speak on the rumoured disagreement with Adedibu yielded no result as he had switched off his handset.
But one of the lawmakers, Hon Shakirudeen Fajimi, who acted as the chairman of the House committee that investigated the accused chairmen, confirmed that there was actually a minor agreement but said that it has been resolved.

“There was actually a minor disagreement but not to the extent that people are carrying it. There have been a lot of insinuation that there was plan to attack us. Nobody is attacking us. What we have is a minor disagreement. It is a party matter and it had been resolved,” Fajimi stated.