Tension rose again in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on
Monday as supporters of the state Governor,
Ayodele Fayose, and some Peoples Democratic
Party members laid siege to the state House of
Assembly in Ado Ekiti . Their action was to prevent the 19 All Progressives
Congress lawmakers from gaining entry to the
assembly to actualise their move to impeach
Fayose. While the siege lasted, the national leadership of
the PDP and Fayose urged President Muhammadu
Buhari to intervene in the matter. News had filtered into the state on Sunday night
that the lawmakers had assembled in a hotel in a
neighbouring state preparatory to sneaking into
Ado Ekiti to remove Fayose and his deputy, Kolapo
Olusola. It was gathered that the news made the police to
quickly cordon off the major roads leading to the
Assembly complex with their patrol vans and an
Armoured Personnel Carrier . The PDP members and commercial motorcyclists
blocked the secretariat and NTA roads which also
lead to the complex. As of 3p.m on Monday, the
policemen, the PDP members and the commercial
motorcyclists were still seen blocking the roads. As the tension heightened, Fayose made a
statewide broadcast during which he again called
on the people to defend the mandate given to him
by them. After the broadcast, commercial life in the city went
dead as traders hurriedly locked their shops while
civil servants closed their offices and left for their
homes. Fayose had before the broadcast told journalists
that all the entitlements of the APC lawmakers had
been paid, contrary to Speaker Adewale Omirin’s
denial. The governor flaunted copies of Skye Bank
cheques dated May 26, 2015 and issued to the
lawmakers to corroborate his claim. One of the
cheques, which bore the name Boluwade Kehinde
was received on behalf of the lawmaker and had a
sum of N2, 149, 052 .37 on it. Fayose warned that it would amount to contempt
of court for Omirin and his colleagues to continue
with the impeachment proceedings against him. He
made reference to the ruling by Justice E.S.
Chukwu of the Federal High Court, which ordered
that the status quo as of April 23 be maintained pending the determination of a motion on notice
before him(Chukwu). The factional Speaker, Dele Olugbemi, and six
other lawmakers had in the suit sought an
interlocutory injunction among other reliefs
restraining the APC lawmakers from commencing
impeachment against Fayose. The governor said,
“They have been dropping the name of President Buhari as giving them the backing to impeach me. How can an Assembly, whose tenure will wind up
on Thursday be planning this. I wonder why the issue of the past should be
allowed to come to play out now. “As of the day
the court gave the order, I mean April 23, Omirin
was not the speaker. It will be wrong for the court order not to be
respected. This is illegality and I want to raise this
for the public to know. “Omirin had gone to court to challenge his
impeachment but he later withdrew his case,
which means he accepted he had been impeached.
A cost of N100, 000 was awarded against him. “So,
he is not the Speaker. I am calling on well- meaning Nigerians, the Chief
Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmoud Mohammed,
and President Buhari to intervene in this matter. “How can somebody be living in another state and
be planning to invade his own state; this is
something else and I view this as a major crime
anyone can commit against his people.” On the payment of the salaries and other benefits
to the APC lawmakers, Fayose said, “They came to
collect the cheques in Ado Ekiti in company with
the Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo. “The issue would have been discussed publicly
during a peace parley but they insisted that it
should not be discussed openly because they
didn’t want the leaders of their party to know,” he
added. Fayose urged the Ekiti people to keep their
eyes on the lawmakers and prevent them from carrying out their plot to remove him. In Abuja, the PDP accused the outgoing APC
lawmakers of trying to cause mayhem as a means
of securing political control of the state. The party warned in a statement by its National
Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, that its members
would be fully mobilised to resist the scheme. It alleged that the move to create confusion in the
state by the lawmakers was a final attempt in their
failed mission to unseat Fayose. The PDP warned the lawmakers to watch their
steps and not to take its civility for granted as it
would not hesitate to defend the governor with all
the force availed by the law. The statement read in part, “We wish to state in
very clear terms that we would not condone any
more move by the rejected APC lawmakers to
subvert the will of the people of Ekiti state as
expressed in the mandate freely given to Governor
Fayose. “These outgoing APC lawmakers whose mandates
have already been withdrawn by the people
should watch their steps and not in any way take
our civility and Governor Fayose’s deportment for
peace, unity and harmony for granted. “We issue
this as a final warning. Our members and supporters in Ekiti State are able,
willing and ready to defend our mandate using all
available instruments granted by the law. “We have the capacity and will have no other
option unless the APC lawmakers retrace their
steps and embrace peace. Enough is enough.” It added that it would not in any way “condone or
tolerate any move by the APC lawmakers to
subvert the course of justice”. While commending the people of the state for their
courage in standing by Fayose, the party urged
Buhari to caution the lawmakers especially given
the olive branch already extended to them by the
governor. The party also charged security agencies to be on
the alert and ensure that there was no breakdown
of law and order in the state. In Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the Acting National
Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, also said that
Buhari and the the international community
needed to intervene in the Ekiti crisis. Secondus accused the APC of planning to cause
confusion in Ekiti and other PDP-controlled states,
warning that such a step was detrimental to the
survival of democracy in the country. He said, “It is the plan of APC to cause crisis in Ekiti
State. It is the plan of APC to systematically cause crisis in
the PDP-controlled states and this will not augur
well for democracy in Nigeria. “If you recall, PDP
has nurtured this democracy for 16 years and we
are having today, that has the rule of the game,
they are now in power. They were not coerced; they were allowed
freedom of the press; rule of law was obeyed and
today, Buhari is the President of our dear country. “We call on the President and we call on the
international community to quickly look at what is
happening in Ekiti. We ask that the rule of law should be followed.


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Fayose

D oshokomole of yorubaland
D asiwaju cum jagaban of southwest
D modern "Awolowo" of nigeria
D man whose political wisdom cum knowledge surpasses dat of tinubu cum obasanjo
d "god" of ekiti politics
U indeed a model for all to follow
We d youth wanna tap from ya wealth of experience

In Temitemi.1's voice, "Fayose Our Role Model..

It will take maturity for our mallam to let some things go, real maturity, because that fayoSHAME talk rectlessly, some times these our leaders should have a drug check test, cuz it will take more than Gallardo to convince me that this guy isn't on something stronger than coke
The person below is confused