The 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers of the Ekiti State House of Assembly on Thursday shunned the peace meeting convened by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) to reconcile them with Governor Ayodele Fayose.

The lawmakers in a statement by Speaker Adewale Omirin’s Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, explained that while they appreciated the peace moves initiated by the eminent lawyer, surrounding circumstances gave away the governor as not prepared for any resolution of the crisis.

Specifically, the lawmakers said the security measures put in place for the peace parley revealed that the governor had a plan to attack and arrest some of them.

The lawmakers, therefore, proposed that the meeting be moved to Ibadan office of the Senior Advocate while members of the committee must be non-partisan elders.

But Babalola at the meeting on Thursday asked the Commissioner of Police, Ebojune Ibine, and the State Director of Department of State Service, Mr. Duke Fubara, to explain if they planned to arrest the lawmakers.

Both of them said that they had no instruction from anywhere to arrest anyone.
To ensure attendance of all parties, the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, said he gave an undertaking to personally lead the APC lawmakers out of the town after the meeting.

He said over 200 policemen had also been stationed at the entry point at Imesi to ensure their safety in and out of the town.
Reacting to Babalola’s claim that he had made security arrangement for 200 policemen to protect them into and out of Ado-Ekiti, the APC lawmakers said this alone had given away the motive of the peace meeting.

They wondered why the peace would include provision of security to escort them out of the state instead of escorting them to the House of Assembly to continue their legislative duties.

“We cannot hold any meeting on the basis of monetary settlement in isolation of the consideration of the constitutional breaches by the governor. It is amazing that the truce terms will not include resumption of our duties, but just to settle us monetarily and escorting us out of Ekiti State,” the statement explained.

Picking holes in the arrangement for the meeting, the lawmakers wondered why the governor was announcing the peace meeting intermittently on the state media while secretly mobilising the PDP members from the 16 local governments to storm the venue of the meeting.

“What is this all about if not coded incitement for mob attacks?” the lawmakers queried.
They also insisted that the security agents told them in clear terms that they could not guarantee their security and warned them against passing through the streets of Ado-Ekiti to the venue of the meeting.

They added that their discovery of a plot to arrest them confirmed their fears that even though Babalola might not know Fayose’s mindset, the revelation and what their government’s sources told them were enough to call off the meeting for a safer venue outside the state capital.
Listing their truce terms, they demanded immediate removal of all illegal structures that aid the activities of thugs and miscreants in and around the Ekiti State House of Assembly premises; restoration of the constitutionally recognised Speaker (Omirin), and other principal officers illegally impeached back to their lawful positions; and the G19 should be allowed unfettered access to and from the Ekiti State House of Assembly to perform their legislative duties until the expiration of their tenure on June 6, 2015.

Others include stoppage of political arrests and vendetta against the APC members adding that the governor should facilitate these demands between now and May 4, 2015.

They expressed sincere appreciation to the elders who facilitated the meeting and urged them to consider holding the meeting at a neutral and safer venue.

But Fayose at the meeting promised to shift ground on contentious issues if that would return peace to the state.
The governor, who said his gesture should not be taken for cowardice, also debunked allegations by the lawmakers that he had connived with security agencies to arrest them if they appeared for the meeting.

“Within the ambit of the laws, I will respect the views of all of them. If there is anybody who should be evasive, it should be me because their time has almost expired. The guilty are afraid.

“They said I sent police to arrest them, where will I keep them after arresting them? We should stop playing to the gallery in a matter like this. I’m ready to shift ground. I’m ready to ensure they depart and finish their tenure successfully and whatever is due to them, I’m ready to pay. That is not an act of cowardice.

“I’m prepared to make peace and work in the overall interest of the state. I’m ready to submit myself to this meeting as many times as possible.”

Others at the meeting include the Chairman, Committee for the Creation of Ekiti State, Chief Deji Fasuan, a former Minister of National Planning, Chief Ayo Ogunlade, a delegate to the National Conference 2014, Dr. Kunle Olajide and the factional Speaker, Dele Olugbemi.

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SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/news/ekiti-crisis-apc-lawmakers-give-terms-for-truce/

masseratti:
So Fayose can actually be impeached after Gej leaves on May 29?wow I never knew the law makers tenure will end in June 4 a full week after Gej must have left aso rock.

helpee:
Thank GOD I am not TEMITEMI, I would have been forced to say FAYOSE my role model. The lawmakers are scared of the people they want to legislate over while fayose eats amala, laughing with people in local joint. They want to continue their legislative duties in ibadan...yet they want to impeach fayose. Buhari should better not allow petty politics to distract him. These guys are clowns

emiye:
hush, and don't think like a fool. That a governor of a state mobilises thugs against the lawmakers . and station them around the state entrance with tacit support of the the policemen is something you lousy folks should be ashamed of. It was a similar modus Operandi of infamous Late Lamidi Adedibu , if that is your kind of role model, you are a disappointment to your generation and the next.

Remove Federal police support from Fayose, and he is gone, so tell me what is special about such a fellow?

helpee:
sore loser. Fayose don't need federal police for protection. Common people like okada riders and teachers are the one defending him. The same people that chased away fayemi are defending fayose. In life, when your people are ready to die to defend you in spite of propaganda and intimidation, giving you 100percent in election, you are a genius. Fayose is the only governor that scored 100percent in every election in nigeria in the last election and you are saying he shouldn't be a role model to youth. Kindly mention the name of any member of your family that ever won a councillorship election so I can make him my role model. Fool

D9ty7:
Fayose the bad man. APC lawmakers be like; After God, fear Fayose.
And someone calls this man his role model. What's there in him to emulate?

emiye:

Adedibu of Oyo state had done better than him while he was alive, he won elections as long he supports a candidate, but thuggery and intimidation was the mode of operation, what has Fayose done differently?. You are a fool if you think thugs deployed by a governor can stop or limit the lawmakers , if the actions were not supported by the police. How you can support a governor who installed 7 lawmakers to sack 19 lawmakers should put you in crying mode . Your reasoning is so backward, and the Nigerian society will be better off, the more we have less of you. It is people like you that supports a village thief/criminal as long as he is the richest man in your village, in your warped logic such person deserves a chieftaincy title.

helpee:
you guys are criminals. So because I hold a different opinon you will rather have less of us. That is how genocide starts. For your information ekiti election was so peaceful that comparing it with Adedibu era shows you are irredeemably foolish. I am from EKITI. I am a medical doctor. I am rich in private practice. Yet Fayose is my role model. Deal with it

barcanista:
APC lawmakers are still whinning... Fayose isn't going anywhere though

barcanista:
Please I sincerely want to know what happened to the $100 billion that was made in Oil Revenue in 2012 Alone? Considering that the Government had to borrow more and deplete our reserves.


$100 billion = N16.8 trillion


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