The confrontation between the Ekiti Governor,
Ayodele Fayose, and the State House of Assembly is
gathering momentum.
The Ekiti State Government on Tuesday sealed off
four filling stations in Ado-Ekiti including T. Five
Integrated Service Filling Station belonging to the
Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Dr.
Adewale Omirin.
According to a statement in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday
by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ayodele
Fayose, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, the step was taken to
prevent unimaginable fire accident with attendant
fatalities.
“The owners of the affected petrol stations are to
report to the Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning
and Urban Development with letters of approval,”
the statement said.
Reacting to the closure on Wednesday, the Speaker
alleged that the Governor ordered the closure in
order to intimidate and coerce him.
Omirin, who is a member of the All Progressives
Congress, and Fayose of the Peoples Democratic
Party are believed to be at loggerheads.
The Speaker in a statement by his Special Adviser
(Media) Wole Olujobi, vowed not to “buckle under
undue political pressure to abandon his party for
the Peoples Democratic Party for selfish and
pecuniary motives.”
Omirin claimed he fulfilled all necessary
environmental laws in the location of the filling
station and got necessary approval, wondering why
the governor would start victimising those who do
not share his political belief.
The statement quoted the Speaker as saying that
another Assembly member, Joseph Dele
Olugbemi, had told him two days after Fayose’s
inauguration that he (the governor) had made up
his mind to close his filling station over refusal to
join PDP.
Olugbemi was among the six APC members that
defected to PDP on the day of the inauguration.
Omirin had earlier promised the governor that the
House of Assembly would work with him in the
interest of Ekiti people, to deliver dividends of
democracy.
“I called the governor to confirm what the
honourable member told me about the plan to
close my filling station. The governor denied any of
such plan, swearing that he would not victimise any
opponent.
“But only yesterday the governor ordered the
closure of the filling station, citing environmental
factor,” the Speaker explained.
Omirin said he had a background of political fidelity
anchored on progressive democratic practice and
so would not abandon principle in pursuit of selfish
agenda diametrically opposed to the ethos of his
political belief.
According to him, the present atmosphere in the
state does not call for high-handedness and
persecution against perceived opponents, but a
collective pursuit of common goals to deliver good
governance to Ekiti people.
He warned that attacks on the opponents,
particularly the lawmakers, will only smear the
relationship between the Executive and Legislature.
But Fayose’s media aide denied that the decision to
seal off the Speaker’s filling station and others had
any political undertone.
In a telephone chat with our correspondent,
Adelusi maintained that, “Those filling stations
sealed off by the Ministry of Physical and Urban
Planning were because they contravened
environmental laws.
“They are sited within residential areas. They are
not supposed to be within the residential areas.
“They are not the only filling stations in the state
capital. If they didn’t comply with the
environmental laws, the law should take its course.
It has no political undertone.
“Four filling stations were sealed off but it is an
ongoing thing. The exercise will take place through
out the state. It is to sanitise the state and prevent
fire outbreak.”
Meanwhile, the Governor has approved the
appointment of Mr. Samuel Adeyemi ( Shakila) as
the Chairman, Ekiti State Petroleum Products
Consumer Protection Agency.
The appointment takes immediate effect.
In another development, Fayose will Thursday
swear in Justice Emmanuel Omotoso as judge of the
Ekiti State High Court.
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Na small small e dey strt. d last is yet 2 b heard abt Ekiti.Hw many days in office?

Ekiti deserves whatever Fayose gives em

I only hope that this man will leave as a saint after his tenure.

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