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The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the state have a mission to destroying his administration by all necessary means.

He disclosed this while answering questions from NAIJA CENTER NEWS correspondent through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi on Friday.

Mr. Adelusi said Governor Fayose has done everything to unite the APC lawmakers to work with him, contrary to their cry, but they refused.

He also disclosed that the governor held meeting with the lawmakers five times to the point that he almost knelt down, appealing to them to work and move the state forward.

“I can tell you categorically that Ayo Fayose held meetings, tight hand with the APC lawmakers even after the inauguration five times. I was privy to those meetings and the governor almost went on prostrating, begging them. All they ask the governor to do for them, he did it. Like the allowances and subvention and the governor release everything to them just to make sure that they agree with his administration. Each time they have agreed with the governor, on going back, they will ask their leaders and tell them the outcome of the meeting, and their leaders will tell them not to cooperation with the administration. When another meeting is called, you will find them giving another reasons different from what they had agreed on. It’s their leaders which are residing outside Ekiti State that have been controlling the APC lawmakers to frustrate the administration.

As far as Ekiti State is concerned, his people, we are moving forward, The people of Ekiti are fully behind Fayose and, i can tell you, things are going on fine. Nobody drove the APC lawmakers away, they went away on their own

He disclosed that nobody is chasing the lawmakers contrary to their accusations that the governor is using the police to intimidate them

He said” there is nothing like crackdown on the APC lawmakers, they are the one that have tried to bring down a PDP government led by Ayo Fayose. After the inauguration, the lawmakers got directives from their leadership that they should not cooperate with Governor Fayose. You know the governor won Fayemi, they resorted at using the lawmakers as a weapon to fight back at Ayo Fayose and the PDP since they are more than the PDP lawmakers in the house.

The advise giving to them by their leadership is to go back to the house and frustrate the administration of Fayose and that any bill, anything brought to the house should not be well attended to and they started sitting and carried out that order. The list of commissioner and council caretaker nominees that were sent to them were rejected”


On the reason given by the Speaker of the APC lawmakers, Dr. Omirin that the nominees were not attended to because their CVs were not available and the issue was not on order paper, Adelusi said ” What they are telling you is a total lie, The former speaker, Omirin had a meeting with Governor Fayose. It was the speaker, Omirin who asked Governor Fayose to send the list of nominees and their CVs to the house. The list was sent four days before the sitting, it was sent on Friday and the sitting was to be Monday”


It was also the speaker who told the nominees to appear before them for screening. On the day the sitting was to hold, the APC lawmakers got an order from their leaders that they should not screen the commissioner nominees, that they should remove the discussion from the agenda of the house on that day, which they complied with, so it is the plan of the APC that Fayose administration should be brought down.”

Responding to the allegation that Governor Fayose tampered with the PDP delegates list for the National Assembly Primaries, the CPS said that was not true. He added that the governor used the list that was agreed on by everyone.

He said ” I’ll tell you that it is a total false, Governor has not tampered with the list of delegates. The list of delegates is the one that was agreed to by the party leadership. So whoever may have told you that is only trying to divert attention.”

NAIJA CENTER NEWS could recall that Governor Fayose on October 16, made promise to the people of Ekiti State that he was ready to work with both the APC and PDP lawmakers to move Ekiti forward.

Since the governor assumed office, the state PDP and APC have been marred with different accusations.

Why speaking with NAIJA CENTER NEWS on the statement made by a PDP delegate that Fayose madness and reckless will put the party at a disadvantage for another four years, the CPS said ” There is nothing like that, if you go round the state and ask the people, you will see that what they are telling you is blatant lie, Ekiti PDP is more united, they were united in winning the governorship election, they are more united to win the next governorship election and i can tell you that APC will not even come close.

On the suspension of the former speaker of the House, Dr. Omirin, the CPS disclosed to NAIJA CENTER NEWS that three lawmakers who joined the seven PDP members were APCs. He also disclosed that the lawmakers are presently waiting for the right time to dump APC for the PDP, and for now, they have decided to remain anonymous since they have not declared publicly.

He also said that since Omirin has taken the case to court, the video recorded during the day the speaker was impeached is available, adding that it will be shown in court so as to put an end to the believe that it was ten members who impeached the speaker.

Mr. Idowu Adelusi explained that they had 10 lawmakers on the said date instead of 9 to impeach the speaker, adding that the 3 APC lawmakers always join the PDP lawmakers whenever they seat.

On the closure of the speaker filling station, he said the filling station was closed to public institution, a school which according to him, is against the law. He said residents of the area had written petitions to the appropriate quarter during Governor Fayemi’s administration but was put aside since they were on the same party.

“The governor did not close down any filling station, it was the ministry of Urban and Physical Planning. There is a law that forbid establishment of filling station where public institutions are, there is another law that stop the establishment of filling station near residential areas.

Unfortunately, the filling station was cited close to public institution and residential area. The atrocity was committed during the time of Fayemi. The filing station did not meet the approval of the Ministry of Urban and Physical Planning but because the owner was APC and they were controlling the government at that time, the governor approved it since the governor’s order override the ministry recommendation.

Before Fayose, there were many petitions from the schools and residents from the area which were sent to the ministry. When Fayose came in, the people reminded the governor that the former governor refused to attend to their plea and pleaded that he (Fayose) to look into it. That was why he informed the Ministry to attend to the petitions. The shutting down of filling station was down according to the law. You know people try to read politics to everything one does as long as you are in government without looking at the advantage on the people.

Speaking on the treat by the Federal lawmakers Oyetunde Ojo who berated Fayose and threatened to bring the problem in Ekiti in the house, Adelusi said no one can interfere in the issue between Ekiti State and lawmakers for now because the matter is in the court. The Fed lawmakers is only making noise because he knows the law”



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