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Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by Johnnyessence(m): 9:01am On Apr 20, 2015 |
VANGUARD — There appears to be no end in sight to the current face-off between the 19 All Progressives Congress, APC, lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly and Governor Ayo Fayose. Some 20 minutes after leaving a church service where the clergyman advised the governor to embrace peace by reconciling with APC lawmakers, Gov. Fayose made a live broadcast on the Ekiti State Radio and Television, ESRT, where he told Ekiti people to defend their mandate from the APC lawmakers, who he claimed were coming to invade the state to impeach him today. But the lawmakers are insisting on going ahead with Fayose and his deputy, Dr Kolapo Olusola’s removal. This is coming barely 48 hours after Fayose promised to dialogue with the aggrieved lawmakers. To ensure that the APC lawmakers would not achieve their motive, the Okada riders association and the commercial transport workers operating in the state are toeing the path of the governor by telling their members to converge on the premises of the state House of Assembly today at 6 a.m and defend the mandate freely given to Fayose and his deputy during the June 21, 2014 governorship election. During the governor’s live broadcast on the ESRT, he told the people to defend their mandate from the invading APC lawmakers and defend him against the alleged impeachment. He urged drivers and Okada riders in particular to move out en-masse to defend his mandate, saying: “My mandate is your mandate and you must defend it.” Okada riders, NURTW mobilise members Barely 10 minutes after, two statements emerged on the state radio as public announcements that were being broadcast intermittently. Below are the transcripts of the two statements from the drivers union and Okada riders association. “All Okada riders in Ekiti State are enjoined to be on the look-out for strange faces in the state from tomorrow. This is because it has been gathered that APC lawmakers working with Dr Adewale Omirin are planning to truncate the peace of the state by invading the state with armed thugs. “All Okada riders in the state should be mobilised to the House of Assembly by 6 a.m tomorrow. Governor Fayose’s mandate is the mandate of Okada riders. We must defend it with the last drop of our blood.” Signed: Niyi Dahunsi, Chairman, Okada Riders Association. In another announcement, the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, through its chairman, Clement Adekola said: “Information available to us is that the APC lawmakers are planning to invade the state with lorry-loads of thugs recruited from Lagos and Osun states tomorrow. “The APC lawmakers have vowed to kill anyone that stands on their way to achieving the plot of impeaching Governor Fayose and his Deputy, Dr Kolapo Olusola. “We, therefore, alert all members of our union to be on the look-out from tomorrow. All drivers unions members should be prepared to defend the mandate freely given to Governor Fayose. “Our members should monitor movement of vehicles into Ekiti State from today so as to prevent invasion of thugs whose only intention is to kill our people. We gave our mandate to Fayose and we must be prepared to defend it.” It was signed by Samuel Agbede, Chairman, Road Transport Workers Association of Nigeria and Clement Adekola, Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers. Stop inciting Ekiti people, APC lawmakers tell Fayose The 19 APC lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly in a reaction to yesterday’s broadcast by Governor Fayose, said the governor was never committed to peace. A statement by Special Adviser on Media to Speaker Adewale Omirin, Wole Olujobi said the governor had in his broadcast demonstrated that he was never committed to the peace he preached barely 24 hours before his inciting broadcast. The statement said: “How do you reconcile this inciting broadcast with a plea he made for peace not quite 24 hours earlier which Ekiti people and indeed Nigerians thought was a good move by the governor to thaw the frozen relationship between him and the lawmakers? This is a confirmation of what Omirin said in his Sunday Punch interview that the governor can’t be trusted in any peace move.” Olujobi expressed regrets over failure of the governor to embrace the homily by the clergyman in his thanksgiving service where he was admonished to embrace peace with APC lawmakers by paying their entitlements and seek genuine reconciliation to move the state forward. According to the statement, “it is shocking that the governor, who refused to make any remark or commitment during the church service after the man of God appealed to him to embrace peace, could go on air few minutes after the service to start inciting workers, traders, Okada riders and artisans to defend him with their last drop of blood. “As if his live broadcast was not enough, Ekiti people were shocked when a public service announcement started running intermittently on the state media urging Okada riders to look out for strange faces across the state and attack them because they are thugs that are being imported by APC lawmakers. “They are also to converge on the House of Assembly as early as 6 a.m today to prevent the lawmakers from performing their legal duties.” Stressing that they were not planning any invasion of the state with thugs, the lawmakers called the attention of Nigerians to the unlawful acts of the governor in his desperate move to ensure that the lawmakers are rendered ineffective in the discharge of their lawful duties. “We have said for the umpteenth time that the governor would be given a fair hearing. He has nothing to fear. He should continue to have faith in the Nigerian constitution. He had just won a constitutional matter at the Supreme Court. We will apply the same law that the court used to give him victory. He is an Ekiti man. We don’t hope to punish him unjustly,” the statement added. It stressed that Fayose could not benefit from the law and at the same time prevent other elected representatives of the people from enjoying the same benefit. “The best he and his deputy can do is to appear before the panel to be set up by the CJ and defend themselves. This is the rule of law which he has benefited from and there should not be an exception to this,” the statement added. Fayose not inciting anyone —Aide Meantime, the Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, has described as false, claim by the factional Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, that Fayose was inciting the people against the APC lawmakers. He said: “The reality in Ekiti State today is that the people are rising up to defend their mandate and if Omirin and his APC lawmakers are not working against the people’s mandate, they have nothing to fear.” Olayinka said the APC should rather ask themselves what they have done to offend the people to the extent that none of the lawmakers, who sought re-election was re- elected at the April 11 election. He asked whether it was Fayose that incited the people against the APC on March 28 and April 11 when the people openly rejected the party with their votes. The governor’s aide, who reiterated Governor Fayose’s commitment to peaceful resolution of the crisis in the state House of Assembly, added: “The governor cannot stop the people who voted for him from protecting their mandate. “Some of these people who called themselves elite were in the comfort of their bedrooms in Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja and abroad when Okada riders, traders, drivers, workers, artisans, students and all the common people of Ekiti stayed in the sun and rain to cast their votes for Fayose. “Because Fayose wants peace and he is committed to it, those who gave him the mandate to govern them for four years should not defend their mandate if it is being threatened by a few people who they have rejected with their votes? “Instead of making noise in the media, the APC lawmakers, including Omirin and those deceiving him with the prophesy of him becoming acting governor of Ekiti State should face the reality of their total rejection by Ekiti people and stop running from Idanre to Lagos, Osogbo and Abuja trying to uproot the tree planted by the people of Ekiti.” Uniform men storm Ado-Ekiti — APC Spokesman for Dr Adewale Omirin, Wole Olujobi late last night alleged that scores of soldiers in about 12 vehicles stormed Ado- Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, in what looked like a covert operation in aid of Governor Fayose who squealed early in the day alleging possible invasion of the state by APC lawmakers today. It’s a lie —Fayose’s aide But the governor’s Special Assistant on new media, Lere Olayinka responded saying: “I am in Ado Ekiti as I write. In fact, I am along Ijigbo area of Ado Ekiti. I have not noticed the presence of any soldier.” www.newspunch.org/tension-in-ekiti-as-impeachment-crisis-worsens/ |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by ozoigbondu: 9:04am On Apr 20, 2015 |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by bettercreature(m): 9:08am On Apr 20, 2015 |
Criminal at its peak,this man should be arrested and jailed |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by Nokiae5: 9:14am On Apr 20, 2015 |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by Edwinmason(m): 9:20am On Apr 20, 2015 |
Does it add to my G.P.A? |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by Chiaka(f): 9:23am On Apr 20, 2015 |
Johnnyessence: Wahts this They should allow the governor to work a beg! every day is one impeachment story or the other |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by eshbeewanna: 9:37am On Apr 20, 2015 |
Fayose has murdered peace himself so how can he enjoy peace now? Ekiti people democracy preaches rule of law therefore you should allow it to prevail. |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by leshluap(m): 10:24am On Apr 20, 2015 |
brb |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by jlinkd78(m): 11:40am On Apr 20, 2015 |
Methink d Ekiti lawmakers trying to impeach Fayose lost it once they were roundly beaten at dia re-election bid and then Fayose victory at d Supreme Court. Hate him or like him there is no way d lawmakers will succeed on this adventure. What d lawmakers are trying to do is to subvert d collective will of d people and with d victory of Fayose during his re-election last year in all d l.g.a in d state, delivering his state to pdp during d March 28 and April 11 and with a Supreme court ruling in his favour; its only right dat sane Ekiti elders should advise d lawmakers to drop forthwith this plan which is trying to ridicule Ekiti. The moment they were not able to achieve this between March 28 once Buhari emerged winner and April 11 when another set of lawmakers were equally elected was when I knew Fayose can go and sleep with eyes closed. Honestly Fayose must be an astute politician to have his pdp lawmaker aspirants win majority of their constituencies after d March 28 despite d very big Buhari factor across d country which even affected my mum voting choice down here in Amankwo Ward in Orsu l.g.a Imo state. It is either Fayose is truly loved by d State or his rigging manual defies all hacking techniques. Pls am not a fan of Fayose but just a concerned Nigerian who feels d change we all craved for should not be made to turn Nigeria into a one party state. If d lawmakers were smarter they would have sealed up a deal with Fayose dat would v seen some of them returned. |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by san316(m): 11:57am On Apr 20, 2015 |
This is a waste of time. Let fayose be. |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by AdeniyiA(m): 12:03pm On Apr 20, 2015 |
Chiaka:stop quoting long post as this inorder to make a simple sentence |
Re: Tension In EKITI As Impeachment Crisis Worsens by KriTic24A: 12:58pm On Apr 20, 2015 |
san316: No! it's not a waste of time. If they are sure of what they are fighting for, then let them go ahead and fight to the finish. Fayose had his time terorrising them back then because he had the backing of Abuja. Don't forget these same lawmaker were prevented from gaining access to the house for their legitimate mandate when Fayose in collaboration with Abuja used the police to scatter them. If you were one of them, will you let it lie low? That is why i always adviced people in authority that tomorrow is never forever. There is another tomorrow after tomorrow. So what works for you today might turn round to work against you tomorrow. Fayose does not have reason to afraid had he done what was right from the start. He was enjoying the services provided by the army then. But now, things are kind of changing... Remember Segun Oni spent about 3 three years illegally through the same brigandage before he was cut to size by the courts. |
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