Onyi42:
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has praised drivers and motorcycle
riders associations for refusing to obey Governor Ayodele Fayose’s inciting order to
foment trouble over alleged plan by the 19 APC lawmakers to storm the House of Assembly
with thugs to impeach him and asked Why must a governor choose violence as a religion?.
The governor had yesterday made a live broadcast on the state media urging drivers,
motorbike operators, market women and workers to rise up to protect the mandate they
gave him.
Few minutes later, state radio and television stations ran public announcements
intermittently urging drivers and motorcycle operators to be on the look-out for strange
faces invading the town to work for the APC lawmakers while also urging them to mobilise
to the House of Assembly to prevent the governor’s impeachment.
But on Monday, the drivers and many okada riders refused to protest, saying that they
would not be used as cannon fodder while the governor’s children were kept in safety and
luxury abroad.
In a statement, Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, praised the transport workers
for their courage and wisdom, saying it is callous for a man to put fellow human beings in
harm’s way over protection of his interest while keeping his own children out of danger
to enjoy safety in luxury.
“We praised the drivers and motorcycle operators for their courage and wisdom. Fayose is
used to protecting his own interest and keeping his children in safety while he distributes
guns to the children of others to foment trouble.
“The day he was first impeached in 2006, he asked his supporters to meet at Fajuyi to
confront the soldiers. It is later that his supporters discovered that the governor had
bolted in the booth of his car to safety while his supporters were tear-gassed with
several of them wounded,” Olatubosun said.
APC spokesman said the matter at hand was not about partisanship but about the abuse
of the constitution, and wondered why Fayose believed he must win through violence all
the time he tramples on the constitution.
“He first led thugs to sack the court and beat up a judge while court records in the Chief
Judge’s office were torn. The Chief Judge’s Secretary was beaten. Now, he openly made
a live broadcast in the state media inciting his supporters to an act of insurrection by
disallowing the lawmakers to do their lawful duties.
“Even during Sunday service in the church, Fayose, to the shock of everyone, was
inciting worshipers to protect the mandate they gave him through violent resistance to
the lawmakers. Why must a governor choose violence as a religion?
“He effectively grounded the judiciary and now it is the turn of the parliament. Nigerian
democracy is on trial and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is in chains
if Fayose can single-handedly cripple these two sacred democratic institutions through
violence and he appears winning all the way,” Olatubosun said.

He wondered why Fayose preferred violent option in the resolution of constitutional and
democratic matters. He also asked Ekiti elders preaching peace to Speaker Adewale
Omirin that they must first start with Fayose on the need to embrace peace by operating
within the ambit of the law instead of inciting people into violence.

Olatubosun also regretted that the governor’s inciting media statement had created
panic among parents who kept their wards at home for fear of attacks on their way to
schools.

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